Into the Wild Introduction

Into the Wild is a story about a man named Christopher McCandless.  Christopher decides to travel into the wilderness with only a 10 pound bag of rice and some hunting gear,  He does this because he says he wants to leave society and live off of the land for a few months. His body was found on September 6, 1992 in an old, abandoned bus in Alaska. Some people thought that he was crazy.  Others thought he was a hero.  Jon Krakauer retraced Christopher's steps and later wrote the book Into the Wild.

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