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Into the Wild (1997) (edit title/settings)

by Jon Krakauer (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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Based on a true story, high spirited Chris McCandless decides to live on the land in the Alaskan wilderness for an extended period of time. He leaves all civilization and personal connections behind. Hitch-hiking and short term camping are his only experiences that prelude his adventure. After... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Based on a true story, high spirited Chris McCandless decides to live on the land in the Alaskan wilderness for an extended period of time. He leaves all civilization and personal connections behind. Hitch-hiking and short term camping are his only experiences that prelude his adventure. After running from his family and deserting the majority of his belongings, he ventures into the wilderness. All goes well in the beginning, but when summer sets he finds himself trapped. Months later McCandless dies in an abandoned bus he'd transformed into his shelter.

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  • “But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has put around us to discover.”
    Chris Mccandless
  • “You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us.”
    Chris McCandless
  • “I now walk into the wild.”
    Chris McCandless
  • “...I fear you will fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic.”
    Chris McCandless
  • “I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly.”
    Everest Ruess
  • “...and he wasn't a nutcase, he wasn't a sociopath, he wasn't an outcast. McCandless was something else - although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim, perhaps.”
  • “The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence - the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes - all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.”
  • “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
    Christopher McCandless

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Jim Gallien had driven four miles out of Fairbanks when he spotted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, thumb raised high, shivering in the gray Alaska dawn.

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Author's Note
Chapter One: The Alaska Interior
Chapter Two: The Stampede Trail
Chapter Three: Carthage
Chapter Four: Detrital Wash
Chapter Five: Bullhead City
Chapter Six: Anza-Borrego
Chapter Seven: Carthage
Chapter Eight: Alaska
Chapter Nine: Davis Gulch
Chapter Ten: Fairbanks
Chapter Eleven: Chesapeake Beach
Chapter Twelve: Annandale
Chapter Thirteen: Virginia Beach
Chapter Fourteen: The Stikine Ice Cap
Chapter Fifteen: The Stikine Ice Cap
Chapter Sixteen: The Alaska Interior
Chapter Seventeen: The Stampede Trail
Chapter Eighteen: The Stampede Trail
Epilogue
Acknowledgements

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Preceded by A Midsummer Night's Dream, and followed by Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

This is book 176 of 195 in Shelfari Most Popular (June 2011). (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Bell Jar, and followed by The Joy Luck Club.

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Preceded by Don Quixote, and followed by The Divine Comedy.

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Preceded by She's Come Undone, and followed by The Magician's Nephew.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Jon Krakauer (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Anchor
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 067942850X
Page Count: 224

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  • Library of Congress: CT9971.M38
  • Dewey: 917.98045

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