by Jon Krakauer · Presses de la Cité · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258075764
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«Into the Wild: Voyage au bout de la solitude» is the biographical account by Jon Krakauer (Presses de la Cité, paperback, 248 pages, in French).
In 1992, the body of Chris McCandless is found in an abandoned bus in Alaska. Jon Krakauer reconstructs the life of a young man who gave up everything to travel across the United States and venture into the wild, reflecting on freedom, modern society and the American dream.
French edition of the book originally published in 1996, translated by Christian Molinier. The work was recognized with the Washington State Book Award.
Recommended for readers of adventure stories, travel, wilderness survival and biographies.
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.
