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Book Review of Into the Wild

Into the Wild
Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
Book Type: Paperback
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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska. Christopher Johnson had given $25k in savings to charity, abandoned his car and possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet and invented a new life for himself. Four months later his decomposed body was found......