Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Recommended by Gretchen Rubin and Akshay M
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Adventure Travel, Road Trip, and Survival Story.
Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a welltodo 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 cas...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Adventure Travel, Road Trip, and Survival Story.
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Gretchen Rubin
“@kumaonbicyclist Then I would highly recommend Into The Wild, in case you haven't read it already both the book as well as the movie.”
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