num_pages: 216
description: Using the true story of a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, 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.
language: English
title: Into the Wild
titlecomplete: Into the Wild
characters: Christopher McCandless
genres: Classics, School, Survival, Adventure, Biography, Memoir, Nature, Biography Memoir, Travel, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1054837
places: The Slabs, Mojave Desert, California, Alaska, Mexico, Virginia
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: MacMillan