A review by sarahetc
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

3.0

Interesting and very, very sad, the story of Chris McCandless's death is romantic in the way that can maim and kill, and literary in a spectrum from Thoreau past Kerouac into Kerouazy, if you'll pardon the term. Determined to live alone in the Alaskan bush, McCandless wanders into the wilderness at the end of April and lives until mid-August, when a few others find his corpse. Though they can never be completely sure what happened to him, it is likely that he starved to death. Krakauer's book tries to flesh out the details of his life, mine his motivations, and eulogize what many people scorned as ignorance and worse, arrogance.