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Book Review of Into the Wild

Into the Wild
Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
Book Type: Paperback
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Krakauer examines the life and death of Chris McCandless, a young man who turned his back on an affluent upbringing and hiked into the Alaskan wilderness in 1992, dying there of a combination of bad luck, ignorance, and -- perhaps most of all -- hubris.