“Audio Book... read by Phillip Franklin who does an excellent job. The touching story of Christopher J. McCandless, a handsome and intelligent young man. He loved nature and wanted to make a difference in the world. In 1992 after graduating from Emory university in Atlanta he backpacked across the US to Alaska. He donated $24,000 for law school to help feed the hungry. The people he met along the way knew him as Alexander Supertramp. Upon arriving in Alaska he went into the wild where after 189 days he would die at the age of 22 from starvation. His journal was found with his body in an abandoned bus. He was not a nutcase or sociopath, he was a young man who had the courage to follow his dreams. Few of us do...”
Linda wrote this review Friday, November 13 2009.
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