Into the Wild
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Bindung: Taschenbuch
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 917.98045
EAN: 9780385486804
Ausgabe: 1
ISBN: 0385486804
Label: Anchor
Hersteller: Anchor
Anzahl Seiten: 224
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997-02
Herausgeber: Anchor
Studio: Anchor
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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:"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty,
Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams."
Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.
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Glorious or inglorious, that is here the question. Alex Supertramp is a downshifter par excellence, who still needs at first the non-downshifters for his gradual self-realisation. He is an adventurer and freedom-seeker and he is not satisfied with little. He resigns materialism, the urges and lies of the American society and tries to break out into the wild nature, to experience "real" life. To late it dawns upon him that nature is no garden Eden and that some attainments, not so much of the civilization, rather of the socialisation are reasonable. It is a surprising end that Krakauer describes with the help of the diary of the unfortunate. The end of Alex is cruel and shows that it is vain to romanticize nature. Unfortunate could be the wrong word. If Alex would not have renounced such reasonable artefacts like a map, which he intentionally left back, or at least if he had informed about the locality, he could have made it easily to survive. That he wanted it is shown clearly by his desperate ...
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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 take an ...
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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 a step ...
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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 end in the ...
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