In April 1992, a young man from a well to do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mount McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given 25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life from himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.

ISBN: 9780385486804