Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0385486804 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Minerva101 of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 7/12/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by Minerva101 from Calgary, Alberta Canada on Tuesday, July 12, 2011
I really enjoyed reading the book and I really enjoyed the movie as well. Even so, I still feel down deep that either Chris McCandless was mentally disturbed and needed therapy OR he was just an idiot and died a meaningless and senseless death. I just can`t feel any sympathy or empathy for the guy....

Product Description
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. 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 obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless. Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.

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. Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Journal Entry 2 by Minerva101 at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (11/23/2011 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Finally popped this into the mail for TinyToes who selected it out of the Trade PB VBB. I sent it airmail so it shouldn't take long to arrive.
Enjoy!

Journal Entry 3 by TinyToes at Redding, Connecticut USA on Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Thanks so much for sending this book. It has been one that I keep meaning to read but never got around to. Now that it is really in my TBR pile, I'll need to get to it soon.

Journal Entry 4 by TinyToes at Bethel, Connecticut USA on Wednesday, April 29, 2020
I finally got around to reading this one! Great book. Very interesting. I will wild release it once pandemic conditions subside a little.

Thank you and sorry for such a delay.

Released 3 yrs ago (6/2/2020 UTC) at Ridgefield Pediatric Associates, 38B Grove St. in Ridgefield, Connecticut USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Book was left on the bench in the lobby of 38B Grove St. (not in the pediatric office). Please enjoy this very interesting book.

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