Into the Wild

Title of the Book: Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
 Number of Pages:215
 Rating: ☆☆☆
 Review:
       Surviving with no money, the clothes on your back and limited resources is no easy task. Chris McCandless successfully did this for over two years of his life. hopping from state to state, living off the land, and making little money to pay for his supplies when he needed to, Chris McCandless went across the west ranging from Colorado to California, down to Mexico and up to Alaska trying to only survive off the land.
        After graduating college in 1990, McCandless set off to live off the land, not telling his parents or family anything, leaving them in wonder for two years. Taking his car from college in Atlanta he traveled to the mid west, Lake Mead to be exact, near the Nevada and Arizona borders. From there McCandless abandons his car, burns all his money, and leaves his identity behind. From there he traveled to California living on the streets and eventually gets a canoe and travels down to Mexico channels of water, going unnoticed by border patrol. Making his way back up into the states, McCandless makes friends in South Dakota in a town named Carthage. He worked there until he decided it was time to move again and moved to Arizona. Moving from place to place every few month, McCandless came up with his ultimate voyage, to survive in the new frontier, Alaska.
       This book is very unique because it's based off McCandless experiences  in  his journal and the people he met wandering around the west. The Author does a good job incorporating McCandless' experiences to the best of his ability, considering he never knew him. Most of his facts come from the people that new McCandless before his Alaska Voyage. This makes the book biased to what those people knew of him and how the author relates to McCandless. The author does an amazing job adding great detail to the people, places and experiences of events in story of McCandless. He uses stories of other adventurers and an anecdote of his own experiences so the reader can compare them and McCandless story. A few memorable moments from the book are; when McCandless burns, his money and abandons his car, when he survived in Mexico for almost a month on rice and fish, and his time surviving in the Alaskan wilderness.
       I would recommend this book to people who like a story about being in the wilderness or trying to survive on very little and with as little help as possible. I felt as if the book is drawn out in places to include as much detail as possible, which is nice sometimes but I feel like there was a little more than there needed to be. Overall it was a good book and an enjoyable read.