Bibliograph

Type

Label

Into the wild, Jon Krakauer

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1270L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Into the wild

Oclc number

32857731

Responsibility statement

Jon Krakauer

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 8.1, 12, 12, 25964.

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. Christopher Johnson McCandless 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 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. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. 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."--, adapted from Amazon.com

Table Of 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

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