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Audio Book Review: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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Release Date:  August 2, 2007 Publisher:  Random House Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 9 minutes Narrator:  Phillip Franklin Genre:  Travel Biography Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  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.  How 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...