num_pages: 207
description: 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 moose hunter....
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: 1054916
places: The Slabs, Mojave Desert, California, Alaska, Mexico, Virginia
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Anchor