Into the Wild 1st edition by Jon Krakauer ISBN 0307476869 9780307476869

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ISBN 10: 0307476869
ISBN 13: 9780307476869
Author: Jon Krakauer

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. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. “It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order.” —Entertainment Weekly McCandess 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. Not long after, he was dead. 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. 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. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless’s short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless.  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. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless’s uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer’s stoytelling blaze through every page.

Into the Wild 1st Table of contents:

1. Chapter One: The Alaska Interior
2. Chapter Two: The Stampede Trail
3. Chapter Three: Carthage
4. Chapter Four: Detrital Wash
5. Chapter Five: Bullhead City
6. Chapter Six: Anza-Borrego
7. Chapter Seven: Carthage
8. Chapter Eight: Alaska
9. Chapter Nine: Davis Gulch
10. Chapter Ten: Fairbanks
11. Chapter Eleven: Chesapeake Beach
12. Chapter Twelve: Annandale
13. Chapter Thirteen: Virginia Beach
14. Chapter Fourteen: The Stikine Ice Cap
15. Chapter Fifteen: The Stikine Ice Cap
16. Chapter Sixteen: The Alaska Interior
17. Chapter Seventeen: The Stampede Trail
18. Chapter Eighteen: The Stampede Trail

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