Into the Wild
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Bindung: Taschenbuch
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 917.98045
EAN: 9780307387172
Ausgabe: Reissue
ISBN: 0307387178
Label: Anchor Books
Hersteller: Anchor Books
Anzahl Seiten: 224
Erscheinungsdatum: August 07, 2007
Herausgeber: Anchor Books
Studio: Anchor Books
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Produktbeschreibung:Amazon.co.uk:What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life. --
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Amazon.com:What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life.
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A fine, although depressing, book about a very idealistic young man who ventures up to live in the wilds of Alaska, without any companions, food, equipment. A good scenario of the old "man vs. nature" theme. Also, if you missed reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece--The Fates, go and read it.
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The book „Into the wild" by Jon Krakauer tells the story of a selfish weirdo, who leaves his live and his family behind to go on a trip through the wilderness of Alaska, but there he does not find the good life he expected but a mysterious death (that's what is said in the blurb). Krakauer tells this story using techniques normally used in documentary films like eye-witness reports, flashbacks and switching back and forth in time and place; even within one chapter. But as these techniques are documentary film-techniques they don't work for a written text. So it becomes confusing and lacks of thrilling parts. The story could have been more interesting if the book had been written in a different, more book-like way.
However, since the book has been written as it is, the only feeling I have developed towards the book is boredom -- I just don't care about Chris and it doesn't really matter if he dies or not. I even wish him to die, so that this odyssey of reading will finally ...
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Chris McCandless, a young intelligent college graduate, abandons his family and all his belongings and tries to escape from wealth and comfort. He wants to leave civilisation with all its rules. To put in a nutshell he is seeking for something he doesn't know, probably his way back to nature.
Jon Krakauer wants to find out why McCandless, who could have led a modern life in civilisation, turned his back on society and disappeared into the wild without proper gear and finally lost his way.
The author travels through the country to find the stations where Chris McCandless lived, worked or prepared his journey to Alaska, and interviews the people Chris had met.
He shows the reader McCandless thoughts through his diary entries on the journey and gives an idea about Chirs feelings and intentions during the journey. It's an outlook on the psychology of a sensitive, spiritual, idealistic and seeking young man who affected the live of all people he met on his way.
The book is ...
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So, what's to say about Jon Krakauer's book "Into the wild"? After reading the blurb I was of the opinion that an interesting, mysterious and exciting thriller was awaiting me. At this time I thought it wasn't that bad that the end of Chris McCandless, the protagonist, was already revealed from the very beginning. I got bitterly disappointed, though! After reading the first few chapters I got so bored about the book, because it's more like a report instead of a thriller, which it seemed to be at first sight. No suspense can be detected throughout the whole novel. The book is written in a very confusing way with many leaps of time. The author tells about the protagonist's life and his breakout from society, about his lifelong dream to go into the wild. We get to know about the family background of Chris McCandless and why he wants to leave all the things behind that were worthy for him up till now. Krakauer tells us about the protagonist's odyssey through the United States and his tragical ...
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Krakauer`s book "Into the wild", is a report about a young man, who ruined his life by his own visions, dreams and irresponsible behaviour. Chris McCandless, the protagonist, wanted to break out of society and decided to live in the wilderness of Alaska, without any gear and help from outside.
A positive feature about the book is that Krakauer researched the facts very well and that the maps before every chapter are illustrative and therefore helpful for the reader`s orientation.
By reading the blurb, the reader gets the impression that the story about Chris McCandless is exciting and adventurous like a thriller, but in actual fact it isn`t like that.
From beginning till end, the story seems to be a kind of narration which only deals with nature and McCandless`s family background. It`s rather disappointing that there is no actual plot.
Summarizing all the facts you can say that "Into the wild" is exclusively a book for nature lovers, who are interested in such ...
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