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  • Read prior to a trip to Alaska. Stayed at the Earthsong lodge which is on the road to where the final journey in the book takes place.

    

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  • This was an interesting book about not only Chris McCandless's tragic and unnecessary death, but about how someone's romantic view of nature can blind them to its harsh reality.

    

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  • The modern day Everrett Reuss.

    

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  • First I saw the movie, which I had particularly liked, then I started the book in English. Many parts get rather technical and since I'm not a mountaineer expert, sometimes I got kind of lost during the read. Even after reading the book I have mixed feeling about Chris McCandless, but still I find t ... Continue

    First I saw the movie, which I had particularly liked, then I started the book in English. Many parts get rather technical and since I'm not a mountaineer expert, sometimes I got kind of lost during the read. Even after reading the book I have mixed feeling about Chris McCandless, but still I find the story worth reading.

    

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  • Great book, great movie, great soundtrack. Very enjoyable read. Seeing the movie really helps to see what it was like.

    

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• ― Dave Sanders said on Oct 17, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life.

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