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Into the Wild | 
 enlarge | Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Macmillan
Category: Book
Buy New: $388.00
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Rating:  1197 reviews
Sales Rank: 1580694
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0333735420
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780333735428
ASIN: 0333735420
Publication Date: March 6, 1998
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: NEW, Hardcover edition.. Minor shelf wear
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What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life.
Product Description
This is the haunting story of 22-year-old Chris McCandless, who walked into the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992 and whose body--along with a camera with five rolls of film, an SOS note, and a cryptic diary written in the back pages of a book about edible plants--was found six months later by a hunter. Simultaneous hardcover release from Villard. 2 cassettes.
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 I finished Wild quickly. September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
and for me - Jon Krakauer's writing is the kind of stuff that makes for late nights and tired workdays. I can't pay him a higher compliment. This one was a bit different than his other efforts in that Krakuer plays more the role of detective/sociologist rather than an an insightful expedition biographer. However, the story was as rivetting and perhaps even more powerful. I'm anxiously awaiting his next one! I'd also recommend reading Georgiou's masterpiece-- THE FATES, Fates (classic) if you haven't yet. I stumbled upon it at a book store and can't stop talking about it. His writing style is very similar to Jon Krakauer
This Book is Awsome August 31, 2008
This book it s really great if have already seen the movie it doesn't metter cause there so much more in this book and if you close your eyes seems to be on the road with Alex.
~Magnificent Book August 30, 2008
I found this book to be highly engrossing and quite frankly hard to put down, I stayed up till 3 a.m. reading it one night. I think everyone can take something away from this book after reading it which is really a true compliment. I have to wonder about the people who gave this book one star reviews and who call Chris stupid, naive and foolish. People like you have no problem with governments drafting young people for "their" wars only to killed for whatever the goverments cause was. Well Chris died for his own cause and I personally can't fault the man for that. Secondly, each of us in the end has a chance to live life the way they choose or at least how they will approach mentally and this was his choice. We must remember that we are reviewing actual books here and how it was written not the actual person in the book. I want to encourage everyone to read this book and then do some serious thinking afterward taking that inward journey which will only make you stronger.
Into the Wild paperback August 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 9th grader chose as one of his "optional" summer reading books. I read "Into Thin Air" years ago, so liking Krakauer, gave this one a try. Good, quick, easy read. Well done Jon!
 Not too Great August 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was disappointed in this book. As others have said, it should have remained a magazine article because there really isn't enough substance, in my opinion, for a book. I think the main character was part immature (for a 24 year old man) and part crazy. I had some difficulty following the time-line. It was never real clear to me just exactly what this guy was searching for.
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