I want to return to Into The Wild to discuss the author himself. Jon Krakauer waits until the third act of the nonfiction book to discuss his own life, but doing so adds a lot of depth and context to the story of Chris McCandless. Krakauer is a climber and avid outdoorsman, and he has [...]
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I’m Thoreau-ly Bored
I started reading Walden when I moved to northern Michigan in May, hoping that it would enrich my experience spending the summer a little further away from civilization. I was sold on the first line of the back cover description: “The quintessential back-to-nature book…” I had been hearing about this guy since AP History in [...]
