Into the Wild Author: Jon Krakauer
	Book Information Publisher: G. K. Hall Company Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 10 Rating: 2 ISBN-13: 9780783883342 - ISBN-10: 078388334X Publication Date: 12/1997 Pages: 315

NonfictionLarge Print Edition* A New York Times BestsellerIn April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He had given $25,000 in savings to a charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet and invented a life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. Jon Krakauer brings Chris McCandlesss uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows and illuminates it with meaning in this mesmerizing and heartbreaking tour de force.