Into the Wild
Narrator: Philip Franklin
Imprint: Random House Audio
Genre: Travel - Special Interest - Adventure
Release Date: August 07, 2007
7 Hours
List Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9780739358047
Categories:
Travel - Special Interest - Adventure, Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers, Biography & Autobiography - Literary Figures
Tags: biography, alaska, adventure, survival, travel, wilderness, nature, outdoors, memoir, death, hitchhiking, journalism, tragedy, coming of age, solitude, movie, american, jon krakauer, usa, true story, history, starvation, philosophy, psychology, exploration, america, christopher mccandless, 1990s, mystery, youth
Tags: biography, alaska, adventure, survival, travel, wilderness, nature, outdoors, memoir, death, hitchhiking, journalism, tragedy, coming of age, solitude, movie, american, jon krakauer, usa, true story, history, starvation, philosophy, psychology, exploration, america, christopher mccandless, 1990s, mystery, youth
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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...
"Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama wandering of human yearning."--The New York Times
"A narrative of arresting force. Anyone who ever fancied wandering off to face nature on its own harsh terms should give a look. It's gripping stuff."--The Washington Post
"Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama wandering of human yearning."--The New York Times
"A narrative of arresting force. Anyone who ever fancied wandering off to face nature on its own harsh terms should give a look. It's gripping stuff."--The Washington Post
