Into the Wild

In April 1992, Christopher Johnson McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He had previously given away his $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car, and invented a new life for himself under the name Alexander Supertramp. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. Jon Krakauer reconstructs McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage, searching for the drives and desires that compelled this enigmatic young man to seek renunciation and peril, illuminating the profound pull of the American wilderness and the complex relationship between fathers and sons. This is the unforgettable, and tragic, story of how McCandless came to die.

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