Into the Wild

The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.. 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.  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.  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 interst that borders on obsess

Great Biography Kindle Customer This book gave a great insight of the path Chris McCandless's troubled life took.I watched the movie "Into The Wild" a few years back and have always been curious and saddened to think about Chris's journey. This book seemed to clear the story a bit. Sometimes I had a lump in my throat thinking that this is not a "character" in a made up story but a real life that seemed to yearn for a . Certainly worth the read with some mild caveats There are a number of laudable things about this book. It's written in a very conversational tone. The writer has clearly kept researching and updating the information about what caused Chris McCandless' death. The sensitivity shown to the family both in the writing of the book and their involvement in learning about what happened along with the author. It describes this tragedy and its. I like to stick to straight up fiction genres Mar Twain Normally, I like to stick to straight up fiction genres, and I always had this idea that nonfiction also meant non-interesting. However, Jon Krakauer's compelling novel "Into the Wild" quickly reversed that misconception. This is one of the easiest stories, in any genre that I've read, to get involved in, and I never once found myself bored with the book."Into the Wild" is the story of

By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. . Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless. "God, he was a smart kid" So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a colle