Into the wild
by Jon Krakauer | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330351699 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0330351699 Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
Making this available due to having another copy. I have yet to read this myself but I have seen the film directed by Sean Penn which was excellent.
From Publishers Weekly
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.
Making available for the OZVBB
From Publishers Weekly
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.
Making available for the OZVBB
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This book has been requested by dolphin-au from the OZVBB (Round 17) and I will be posting in the next few days on my next trip into town.
This book has been requested by dolphin-au from the OZVBB (Round 17) and I will be posting in the next few days on my next trip into town.
Journal Entry 3 by dolphin-au from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, December 10, 2009
Thanks jeniwren, this arrived safely. You could have sent it with the 'His Illegal Self' bookring plus, and thrown some of the rubbish Melanie*** put in out instead.
I saw the movie based on this book last year, and am looking forward to this book. It will probably be a while though as my MT TBR is still huge.
I saw the movie based on this book last year, and am looking forward to this book. It will probably be a while though as my MT TBR is still huge.
Journal Entry 4 by dolphin-au at Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Another book received from Jeniwren I haven't journalled! Sorry.
Again, I read this book ages ago and quite enjoyed it. It didn't have the same poignancy as the movie I think. The ultimate ignorance and stupidity of Christopher shows a bit clearer in the book than it did in the movie I think. I don't really know what happened to the book since I'vew read it. I thought I had passed it on to someone else, but will check.
Again, I read this book ages ago and quite enjoyed it. It didn't have the same poignancy as the movie I think. The ultimate ignorance and stupidity of Christopher shows a bit clearer in the book than it did in the movie I think. I don't really know what happened to the book since I'vew read it. I thought I had passed it on to someone else, but will check.
