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By Jon Krakauer
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. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. 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. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. Krakauer investigates and does his best to reconstruct the story of how McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
Praise: "Powerfully illuminating. . . . Almost every section of the book is fascinating in its own right, and together the chapters make a rich picture. . . . An arresting portrait of depravity."
--The New York Times Book Review
"This year's most audacious work of nonfiction. . . . A white-knuckle mix of true-crime reporting and provocative history."
--New York Post
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. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. 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. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. Krakauer investigates and does his best to reconstruct the story of how McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
Praise: "Powerfully illuminating. . . . Almost every section of the book is fascinating in its own right, and together the chapters make a rich picture. . . . An arresting portrait of depravity."
--The New York Times Book Review
"This year's most audacious work of nonfiction. . . . A white-knuckle mix of true-crime reporting and provocative history."
--New York Post
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Chapters 14 and 15
zeal demarcates penitent inebriated phantasmagoria madrigal extricated recumbent epiphany crampon volition Chapters 16–18 Rubicon perambulation claustrophobic lacerations malevolent repertoire resilience insidiously Epilogue epilogue anomalous |
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