The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 25th, 1996
Into the Wild. By Jon Krakauer. Villard Books. 207 pages. $22. Readers may at first have trouble sympathizing with Christopher Johnson McCandless, the young man whose mysterious death in the Alaskan wilderness Jon Krakauer explores so movingly in his new book, "Into the Wild." As McCandless' story unfolds in these pages, he seems to have been lacking in both adequate supplies and proper know-how when he waved goodbye to a trucker who had given him a lift and tramped off into the bush on April 28, 1992. What's more, the idealism that prompted this fatal romantic adventure appears both flawed...
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