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1996

Format:	Book
Author:	Krakauer, Jon.
Title:	Into the wild / Jon Krakauer.
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Villard Books, [1996]
Copyright Date	©1996
Description:	xi, 207 pages : illustration, portrait ; 25 cm
Summary:	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 party of moose hunters. 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.
Audience	1270L Lexile
Contents	The Alaska interior -- The stampede trail -- Carthage -- Detrital Wash -- Bullhead City -- Anza-Borrego -- Carthage -- Alaska -- Davis Gulch -- Fairbanks -- Chesapeake Beach -- Annandale -- Virginia Beach -- The Stikine Ice Cap -- The Alaska interior -- The stampede trail.
Notes:	Accelerated Reader MG 8.1 12 12 25964
Subjects:	McCandless, Christopher Johnson, 1968-1992. Adventure and adventurers -- Biography. Hitchhiking -- Alaska. Alaska -- Biography. West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Genre:	Autobiographies.
LCCN:	95020008
ISBN:	067942850X 9780679428503 9780307387172 0307387178
Other Number:	32857731
System Availability:	7
Current Holds:	0
Control Number:	128242

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JON KRAKAUER is the author of eight books and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. According to the award citation, "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer." - (Random House, Inc.)

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ing book that evokes the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Jack London, Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22-year-old Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a raw, transcendent experience. His emaciated corpse was discovered four months later. Maps. NPR sponsorship. - (Random House, Inc.)

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