Title of the Book:Into The Wild   Author:Jon Krakauer   # of Pages:237   Star Rating: ☆☆ ☆☆  Review:

Jon Krakauer writes the compelling book Into the Wild for those seeking the thrill of a vagabond.  Krakauer tells the story of Chris McCandless, who is a man from a well-off family that leaves everything behind to hitchhike to the Alaska wilderness.  He had everything laid out for a great and easy suburban life, yet he abandoned all of his possessions including his money and car and went “into the wild.”  Little did Chris know, his journey would end fatally and he would be found by an Alaskan hunter.  

Krakauer’s book was a riveting, in depth experience that everyone with a joy for the outdoors should read.  It is every outdoorsman’s dream of a book(minus the ending of course).  Into the Wild tells both in depth views on characters and can develop a story like any book you have ever read.  Krakauer takes a new approach at telling a story based on a true event.  Instead of going in order, Krakauer, gives an overview, then jumps around in a methodic masterpiece.  In the beginning, Krakauer tells where Chris is from and what he experiences in childhood but shocks everyone throughout the story with who the protagonist becomes and how he acts in various situations.  

The only department Krakauer could have improved on throughout the book is by not going so in depth towards the end of the book with the science of plants.  It is understood how much research he had done to understand what happened, but he could have told all of the science in a much shorter, interesting way.  However, do not let me discredit this book at all.  It was a riveting story of how a boy became a man as a vagabond.  Krakauer brought the light and the worship that Chris McCandless deserved as an outdoorsman and as a successful vagabond.  I would highly recommend this to anyone who is looking for the thrill of someones development from well-off suburban lifestyle to lonely dead in the Alaskan wilderness.