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Into the Wild (Pan Books) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Into the WildWhat would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life?
Full description- Publisher: Pan Books
- Published: 12 March 1999
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: True Stories | Contemporary Fiction | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780330351690 ISBN 10: 0330351699
- Sales rank: 1,592
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Full description for Into the Wild
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature. 'an astonishingly gifted writer: his account of 'Alex Supertramp' is powerfully dramatic, eliciting sympathy for both the idealistic, anti-consumerist boy - and his parents' Guardian 'a compelling tale of tragic idealism' The Times

