N° 3472
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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