Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding-and not an ounce of sentimentality. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. In 2012, Chelsea Green became an employee-owned company to help us remain an independent publisher, keep our roots. Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons. Since 1984, Chelsea Green has been the leading publisher of books about organic farming, gardening, homesteading, integrative health, natural building, sustainable living, socially responsible business, and more. Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away.
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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.
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In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. 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. Jon Krakauer uses journal entries, letters, maps, and interviews to tell the true story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his possessions and walked into the Alaskan wilderness. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauers stoytelling blaze through every page. How Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. 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. In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt.
A heart-rending drama of human yearning." - New York Times
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