Into the Wild
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
NOW AN AWARD WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY SEAN PENN
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.
Internationally bestselling author and mountaineer Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to discover the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature.
In 2007, Into the Wild was adapted as a critically acclaimed film, directed by Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch and Kristen Stewart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men's Journal, retraces McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods. Maps. 35,000 first printing; author tour.
Customer Reviews
My favourite non-fiction book
Amazing true story.
Into the wild
Such an inspirational and emotive true story of a young man,s search for himself, to find happiness and peace and the journey along the way of his goal of going into the wild in Alaska.
The people he meets, the sadness of the family he leaves behind without warning or notice and their loss. The joys of life and the beauty of nature and then the cruelty of nature and his harrowing last weeks dying of starvation and his death.
The movie was so moving I bought the book the next morning on my iPad and spent the day reading it. I wanted to see some of Chris's word in print rather than just the movie version.
A best book.
Good story told well.
I empathize with Chris as this could have been me. Thanks for the book, the story reminded me what it was like to be young again.