Jon Krakauer

The story of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarked on a solo journey into the wilds of Alaska and whose body was discovered four months later, explores the allure of the wilderness

Into the Wild

Sebastian Stockmarr

This interested me how an academic person is obsessed with this concept. Despite all the things he learned, getting a 4.0 GPA he feels it's not enough and begins a totally  different approach to life. 

Fikra Fadilla

"He became convinced that humans had devolved into progressively inferior beings," McKinney explains, "and it was his goal to return to a natural state. He was forever experimenting with different eras-- Roman times, the Iron Age, the Bronze Age. By the end his lifestyle had elements of the Neolithic."

His hair was long, and he had a beard. Chris almost always had short hair and was clean-shaven. And the face in the picture was extremely gaunt. But I knew right away. There was no doubt. It was Chris. I went home, picked up Michele, my wife, and drove out to Maryland to tell Dad and Billie. I didn't know what I was going to say. How do you tell someone that their child is dead?

Walt studies a sailboat scudding beneath the window of his waterfront townhouse. "How is it," he wonders aloud as he gazes blankly across Chesapeake Bay, "that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?"

Annabelle Gauthier

But then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

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