by Jon Krakauer · Corbaccio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788879729253
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In April 1992, Chris McCandless ventured alone into the Alaskan wilderness. Two years earlier, after graduating, he relinquished all his possessions and donated his savings to charity, seeking to leave civilization behind and immerse himself in nature. Without adequate equipment or preparation for the extreme conditions, he was found dead by a hunter four months after his departure north of Mount McKinley. Beside his body, a diary was found that Chris began upon arriving in Alaska, allowing his last weeks to be reconstructed. Jon Krakauer, fascinated by this story, wrote an article that generated great interest. Later, with the help of Chris's family, he dedicated himself to reconstructing the young man's journey across America in search of a dream. This book explores Chris's motivations in his quest for absolute purity in contact with nature.
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.
