Into the wild

Into the wild

by Krakauer, Jon

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In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Immediat…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Into the wild / Jon Krakauer.

Summary

In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007, ©1996.
  • Edition:1st ed

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Originally printed: New York: Villard Books, c1996.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xi, 207 pages : : maps ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780307387172, 0307387178, 0385486804, 9780385486804
  • oclc:ocn780099075
  • LC Classification:CT9971.M35
  • Dewey Decimal:917.9804/5

Table of Contents

The Alaska interior -- The stampede trail -- Carthage -- Detrital Wash -- Bullhead City -- Anza-Borrego -- Carthage -- Alaska -- Davis Gulch -- Fairbanks -- Chesapeake Beach -- Annandale -- Virginia Beach -- The Stikine Ice Cap -- The Alaska interior -- The stampede trail -- Epilogue.

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Subjects

Adventure and adventurers Adventure and adventurers -- Biography.… Alaska Alaska -- Biographies Alaska -- Biography Auto-stop -- Alaska Biographies Biography Hitchhiking Hitchhiking -- Alaska Hitchhiking -- West (U.S.) McCandless, Christopher Johnson Récits de voyages Travel writing United States Vie errante -- Alaska Wayfaring life Wayfaring life -- Alaska Wayfaring life -- West (U.S.) West (U.S.) -- Biography

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Krakauer, Jon

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