Screen LibraryInto the wild /
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wall...
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Villard Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1996] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 207 pages : illustration, portrait ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780679428503 067942850X 9780307387172 0307387178 0385486804 9780385486804 |
| Index Number: | CT9971 |
| CLC: | K837.125.89 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.89/M122K |
| Contents: | The Alaska interior -- The stampede trail -- Carthage -- Detrital Wash -- Bullhead City -- Anza-Borrego -- Carthage -- Alaska -- Davis Gulch -- Fairbanks -- Chesapeake Beach -- Annandale -- Virginia Beach -- The Stikine Ice Cap -- The Alaska interior -- The stampede trail. |