Into the Wild

In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters.

What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life?

By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature.

'an astonishingly gifted writer: his account of 'Alex Supertramp' is powerfully dramatic, eliciting sympathy for both the idealistic, anti-consumerist boy - and his parents' - Guardian

'a compelling tale of tragic idealism' - The Times

Jon Krakauer is an American mountaineer and writer, the author of several acclaimed works of non-fiction including Into Thin Air, Into the Wild and Eiger Dreams.