Into the Wild
Language: English
Adventure and Adventurers - United States Adventure and adventurers Alaska Biography Biography & Autobiography Customs & Traditions General Hitchhiking Hitchhiking - Alaska Hitchhiking - West (U.S.) McCandless; Christopher Johnson Nonfiction Social Science Sociology Special Interest Travel United States Wayfaring Life Wayfaring Life - Alaska Wayfaring Life - West (U.S.) West (U.S.)
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Aug 21, 2007
Description:
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 moose hunter....