Cody S. reviewed on 1/26/2010

The magic of this book is that Krakauer doesn't simply report facts or transcribe interviews, rather, he reconstructs the both the body and humanity of his subject from the tragedy of a lonely starvation in the wilderness. For me, the reading was not one of watching a demise, but watching a birth.

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