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.. The book was adapted into a 2007 movie of the same name directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless. McCandless died in a wilderness area in the state of Alaska. Krakauer suggested ...
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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.. The book was adapted into a 2007 movie of the same name directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless. McCandless died in a wilderness area in the state of Alaska. Krakauer suggested in the book that McCandless died of eating a wild potato root which had a poisonous fungus on it, leading to his starvation. After specimens around the bus where he died did not test positive for the toxin, Krakauer modified his theory to suggest that a mold that hinders digestion could be responsible; however, the official cause of McCandless's death is simply starvation.
Chris McCandless grew up in Annandale, Virginia. After graduating in 1990 from Emory University, McCandless ceased communicating with his family, gave away his savings of...
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