by Jon Krakauer · B de Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788413141220
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In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a young recent graduate, decides to break all ties with his family and venture alone into the wilderness of Alaska. At just 24 years old, McCandless enters nature with little equipment, having donated his savings and abandoned his car. His dream is to live in the wild, but four months later, hunters find his lifeless body. The story of Chris McCandless generated controversy: for some, he was a brave idealist; for others, a naive madman with no knowledge of nature. Before his disappearance, Chris wrote to a friend: "Don't take root, don't settle down. Change places often, lead a nomadic life... You don't need to have someone with you to bring a new light to your life. It's out there, simply." This book tells his fascinating and tragic story.
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest, which would become the subject of Into Thin Air.
