About Into the Wild

Into the Wild (1996) by Jon Krakauer is a bestselling non-fiction book about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It is an expansion of Krakauer\s 9,000-word article, \"Death of an Innocent\", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside.[1] Krakauer intersperses McCandless\s story with a discussion of the wilderness experiences of people such as Everett Ruess, John Muir, and John Menlove Edwards, as well as some of his own adventures. Krakauer first went to Alaska in 1974 and has returned there 20 times since. He spent three years carrying out the background research work for this biography. The book was adapted into a 2007 movie of the same name directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless. McCandless died at age 24 in a wilderness area in the state of Alaska. Though the evidence is inconclusive, it has been suggested that McCandless died of eating a