Into the Wild

Chris McCandless, raised in comfort, thumbed rides to Alaska in April 1992 and set off alone into the wild; four months later a moose hunter found his body. Jon Krakauer reconstructs the life that led there. Before that McCandless had donated his savings, left behind his car and most of what he owned, burned his cash and taken the name Alexander Supertramp. Admitting an interest close to obsession, Krakauer uses the story to examine the pull of wilderness on the American imagination, the attraction of high-risk pursuits for some young men, and the charged bond between fathers and sons. The book grew from his article Death of an Innocent in Outside, and Sean Penn adapted it as a 2007 film.

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