Into the Wild

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, 207 pages

In September of 1992, hikers found the emaciated body of Christopher McCandless in an abandoned bus just outside Denali National Park. He had died of starvation a few weeks earlier, more than three months after walking into the wilderness with the intention of living off the land. In Into the Wild, Krakauer examines the two years leading up to McCandless' death, in which the privileged college grad left everything behind and hitchhiked across the country. It's a revealing portrait of a kid that many may dismiss as foolhardy or even arrogant, particularly considering the information that made it into the media after his body was discovered. It's well worth a read though, because I'd bet that almost everyone will in some way see a bit of themselves in McCandless, or in those whose lives he touched.