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Autor: KRAKAUER JON
Editorial: ANCHOR BOOKS
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ISBN: 9780385486804
Reseña: Terrifying... Eloquent... A heart-rending drama of human yearning. --New York Times 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. He had given $25000 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. How Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991 McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car stripped it of its license plates and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name Alexander Supertramp and unencumbered by money and belongings he would be free to wallow in the raw unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandlesss short life. Admitting an interst that borders on obsession he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless. Digging deeply he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind the complex charged bond between fathers and sons. When McCandlesss innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté pretensions and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandlesss uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows and the peril adversity and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. Mesmerizing heartbreaking Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauers stoytelling blaze through every page.
