by Jon Krakauer · Anchor Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307387172
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«Into the Wild» is Jon Krakauer's biographical essay, published by Anchor Books in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In April 1992, Christopher McCandless, a young man from a well-off family, hitchhikes to Alaska and ventures into the wild north of Mount McKinley after donating his savings, abandoning his car, and burning his money. Four months later, a hunter finds his body; Jon Krakauer reconstructs his short life and the motivations behind his flight.
2007 reissue of the work published in 1996, linked to the film directed by Sean Penn. «Into the Wild» received the Washington State Book Award and the Bancarella Sport Prize.
For readers of biographies and adventure stories, and for those who want to know the real story behind the film.
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.
