| Edition |
First Anchor Books edition. |
| Description |
207 pages : maps ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Villard, c1996. |
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"Now a major motion picture"--Cover. |
| Contents |
Author's note -- ch. 1. The Alaska interior -- ch. 2. The Stampede Trail -- ch. 3. Carthage -- ch. 4. Detrital wash -- ch. 5. Bullhead city -- ch. 6. Anza-Borrego -- ch. 7. Carthage -- ch. 8. Alaska -- ch. 9. Davis Gulch -- ch. 10. Fairbanks -- ch. 11. Chesapeake Beach -- ch. 12. Annandale -- ch. 13. Virginia Beach -- ch. 14. The Stikine Ice Cap -- ch. 15. The Stikine Ice Cap -- ch. 16. The Alaska interior -- ch. 17. The Stampede Tail -- ch. 18. The Stampede Tail -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments. |
| Summary |
After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.1 12.0 25964. |
| Subject |
McCandless, Christopher Johnson, 1968-1992.
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McCandless, Christopher Johnson, 1968-1992. (OCoLC)fst00358581
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Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
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Wayfaring life -- Alaska.
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Wayfaring life -- West (U.S.)
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Hitchhiking -- Alaska.
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Hitchhiking -- West (U.S.)
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Alaska -- Biography.
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West (U.S.) -- Biography.
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Adventure and adventurers. (OCoLC)fst00797447
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Hitchhiking. (OCoLC)fst00958393
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Wayfaring life. (OCoLC)fst01172959
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Alaska. (OCoLC)fst01204480
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
9780307387172 (paperback) |
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0307387178 (paperback) |
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