Summary of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild

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Get the Summary of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter....

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638156291

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Summary of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild

Contents

Overview

Jim Gallien

Finding the Body

South Dakota and Alexander Supertramp

Travels Before Alaska

Ronald Franz

Leaving for Alaska

Kindred Spirits

Everett Ruess

Identifying the Body

Family

Jon Krakauer

Alaska

Return to the Scene

His Final Days

Author’s Style

Author’s Perspective

Overview

Chris McCandless is a name that resonates with those looking to find the answers to everyday life in the boundless beauty and mystique of nature. And yet, his unfortunate death at age 24 proves that nature can never fully grant you everything you want.

Jon Krakauer looks into the strange yet inspiring existence of McCandless in Into the Wild (1996), from his comfortable, upper middle-class upbringing to his ultimately painful demise in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer attempts to answer why McCandless chose the vagabond life, what effect this had on others, and how McCandless eventually perished in Alaska.

McCandless will never be alone in his pursuit to make it on his own in the wild. He joins a small club of young people