When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away.
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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.
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In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash.
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. How Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. 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. A heart-rending drama of human yearning." -New York Times In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.Krakauer’s page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. 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. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt.