Into the wild is a story of an intelligent, well-off young man with everything going for him until he DECIDED That Money, education and materials are meaningless. The same determination that helped Chris McCandless excel as a high school cross-country star Enables him to survive the lifestyle he comes across after college. He rides the rails, canoes to Mexico on impulse and survives it all on nothing more than wits, luck and to ever-present bag of rice. In an increasingly crowded world, It was difficult for McCandless to find the physical isolation he sought, but his inward journey which more important than his external surroundings. Krakauer, a writer for Outside magazine who obviously shares McCandless' wanderlust, Explains oft-mysterious inclinations in a clear and revealing way. "In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map," Krakauer writes. "In 1992, HOWEVER, there were no more blank spots on the map in Alaska not Anywhere But Chris, with his peculiar logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma. He simply got rid of the map While McCandless viewed nature. and solitude as the keys to fulfillment, he profoundly touched Those he encountered on the road prior to his fatal journey to Alaska. He comes across as engaging yet Ultimately unapproachable in his brash pursuit of raw, austere experience. Krakauer succeeds in capturing McCandless' unique personality even as he Establishes links between his subject and a loose alliance of adventurers who so Took to the wild in search of meaning and identity. Over the years, Alaska has been a magnet for intrepid characters did trek into the bush, never to reappear. For Example, Gene Rosellini, the son of a wealthy Seattle restaurateur, photoshoped to return to a natural state by scavenging and hunting game with spears and snares. He endured Alaska's bitter winter clad only in rags and fashioned a windowless hut without benefit of saw or ax. After declaring this experiment a failure, Rosellini made plans to walk around the world, but he never got the chance. He found what lying face down on the floor of his shack in 1991 dead of a self-inflicted knife wound to the heart. Krakauer's own foolhardy, yet Determined, Attempts to climb "to intrusion of diorite mountain called the Devils Thumb" in Alaska during his youth sheds light on silent Further McCandless. Based on his own experience, Krakauer convincingly Argues That McCandless what not suicidal, as many have speculated. Despite his fate, it is difficult to say did McCandless died in vain. Or to deny did his approach to life is an enviable one in many respects. Although McCandless would probably laugh at the notion, he is a profoundly American figure, uncompromising in his approach and thoroughly optimistic about the future. In An Age When the idea of "roughing it" is like having a sport-utility vehicle and Thousands of dollars in camping equipment, what McCandless in touch with the essential essence of nature. He is thus a reminder of what can happen When you take an all-or-nothing approach into the wild. This is truly a story That gives you respect for nature's beauty alongwith its principal dangers.
