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Into the Wild

Overall Rating Rating 4.3  |  10 reviews
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    INTO THE WILD developed out of an article Jon Krakauer wrote for Outside magazine. Emory University honors graduate Christopher Johnson McCandless--"Alexander Supertramp"--took off after college in rebellion against authority and his privileged upbr...more

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Into The Wild developed out of an article Jon Krakauer wrote for Outside magazine. Emory University honors graduate Christopher Johnson McCandless "Alexander Supertramp" took off after college in rebellion against authority and his privileged upbringing. The author shares personal reflections about his own risk-taking adventures, as well as impressions of those who knew Christopher. In 2007, the book was made into a film directed by Sean Penn.

Author:
Krakauer, Jon
ISBN:
9780307387172
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
207
Publish Date:
08/07/2007
Publisher:
Anchor Books

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Overall Rating: 4.3

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  • good price

    Got this for my daughter's AP class. Overstock sent this product out promptly and for a great price. Just know that if this item goes through the Allentown post office, it will take a while to arrive. Of course, this was not Overstock's fault.

    • How did the image on site compare with the actual product? excellent
    • How accurate was the on site description of the product? excellent
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  • author egotistic

    The author wrote more about himself than he did Chris/Alex. He used Alex tragedy to write about himself. When I finished the book I felt this is it? What he wrote about Alex probably could have been written in 60 pages, the book is 200. It's sad how Jon covered this story and the extremely poor job he did in getting the reader to know who Chris/Alex was and why he did what he did.

  • Into the wild - good read!

    the book was a HS summer reading assignment for AP English. My son is really enjoying the book. Im glad it has kept his attention cause its hard to get him to read a book all the way through. I will be reading it after him.

  • One of the best books

    I had to read this book for a college lit class and it honestly changed my outlook on life so much. It really shows how you need to go out and live, really do what your heart tells you to do. The ideologies of Chris McCandless really touched my heart and I did cry as the book came to a close. As an environmental science major I might be alittle biased, but I really thought that this book showed one mans struggle to live with the wild and his attempts to overcome the society in which he lived. The movie is good, but the book is much better. You really get inside Chris's head.

  • Thorough and Entertaining

    Although no one knows for sure what happened to Chris McCandles, this book is a thorough account of what most likely did happen to him in Alaska. It is a great read, and an interesting look into the psyche of idealistic young men.

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  • After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men's Journal, retraces McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods. Maps. 35,000 first printing; author tour. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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