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Jan 13, 1996 · A nonfiction account of Christopher McCandless, a young man who walked into the Alaskan wilderness and died in 1992. Krakauer investigates McCandless's motives, background, and legacy, and examines the appeal of wilderness and adventure.
Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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.
Sep 22, 2009 · Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 22, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 240 pages. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family...
Jul 12, 2018 · Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and...
Feb 1, 1997 · Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. 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.
Sep 21, 2009 · 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. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life.
