Into the Wild

Name: Into the Wild
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Author: Jon Krakauer
ISBN: 978-0-330-45367-7

Par : Jon Krakauer

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Nombre de pages214
FormatGrand Format
PrésentationBroché

Poids0.165 kg
Dimensions13,0 cm × 19,6 cm × 1,3 cm
ISBN978-0-330-45367-7
EAN9780330453677
Date de parution01/07/2007
ÉditeurPan Books

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In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness. He had given all his savings to charity, abandoned his car and possessions, burnt all the money in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a hunter .. Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into Thin Air, uses McCandless' restless progress around the wide spaces of North America to explore the call of the wild and the mentality of those who succumb to it.
What emerges from this mesmerizing, heartbreaking story is a version of the wilderness that is hard and seductive ; a place where one can quite possibly find one's self, but also opening the dark possibility that we might find our own nature strange and disturbing.

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“ In a want of being a explorer, one can lose his wings ”

This book, based on a true story, retraces Christopher Johnson McCandless's exploration and life in the wild Alaska in 1992. After graduating from a prestigious school in 1990, McCandless turned his back on his already-planned future and decided to go explore the Western side of the United States, going upwards till the Stampede trail in Alaska. Ill-prepared, a bit naive and deluded by his literary knowledge, he survived during three months in the wilderness, hunting and picking seeds, but eventually ended up dying. Through Krakauer's narrative, we discover a young idealist, torn between his moral values and duties and his thirst of discovering new unpopulated areas. A very interesting and instructive journey that I recommand!