After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to...
After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men's Journal, retraces McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods. Maps. 35,000 first printing; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Chris went into Alaska to seek inner peace with the world and his family. An excellent story indeed. Yet, how I wish he had survived and went back to the secular world.
"1992年4月，一个家境富裕的年轻人，来到了美国的西北部阿拉斯加，并孤身一人走进了Mckinley山脉北部的无人荒野。他的名字叫Christopher Johnson McCandless。走之前他把大学里攒下的2万5千美元捐给了慈善机构，把钱包里剩下的钱全部烧光，希望能够在荒野里发现另一种生活。4个...
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1 有用 Nadicksbernd 2019-01-23 18:30:24
赶在睡前读完了，本来觉得会读不下去，结果意料之外的顺畅，大概是以对话居多的缘故。 好多年前就看过同名改编的电影，当时不能理解主人公只身探险荒野的决定，而且电影赋予角色的崇高也被最后的无助感击溃。 书比电影提供的细节更丰富，还写了其他荒野探险者，为的就是不给这个20岁的年轻人下一个绝对的定义。 现在好像更加能够理解McCandless了，虽然自知永远也不可能像他一样，那种对绝对自由的追求。但至少像他... 赶在睡前读完了，本来觉得会读不下去，结果意料之外的顺畅，大概是以对话居多的缘故。 好多年前就看过同名改编的电影，当时不能理解主人公只身探险荒野的决定，而且电影赋予角色的崇高也被最后的无助感击溃。 书比电影提供的细节更丰富，还写了其他荒野探险者，为的就是不给这个20岁的年轻人下一个绝对的定义。 现在好像更加能够理解McCandless了，虽然自知永远也不可能像他一样，那种对绝对自由的追求。但至少像他这种人是值得尊敬的，也绝不会是最后一个。（不过作者强加两章自己登山的内容，也是挺多余的） (展开)
3 有用 Robert 2011-04-18 20:50:51
啃完的第一本原版 纪念一下
1 有用 喜喜 2012-01-15 17:06:03
看过电影巨喜欢，又找来书看。作者从一路上帮助或者见过Chris的人，他的父母，最亲的妹妹和一些也去阿拉斯加探寻，或生还回来或死在那里的人的笔记为角度，让Chris丰满立体起来。而且美国人是有多喜欢以各种理由挑战阿拉斯加啊？
7 有用 杀死小草莓 2011-05-19 21:22:20
我看得眼泪模模，电影无法超越的这是。这段日子真的是生命中最低谷的时候，alex让我感动，让我觉得生命不仅仅是这样。我想我能好好地走下去。我活下来了。
9 有用 卡人猫 2012-05-23 00:30:46
Chris went into Alaska to seek inner peace with the world and his family. An excellent story indeed. Yet, how I wish he had survived and went back to the secular world.
0 有用 TTTTTTTra 2024-09-30 13:13:29 美国
是不是因为into thin air决定去冬天长期零下30度，雪积到小腿的地方读大学，不知道。是不是因为看了太多集outdoor boys，开始读这本书，不知道。确信的是，主人公是intp哈哈。
0 有用 zhifeige 2024-09-13 09:34:46 上海
越读到最后越能够感受到这本书的深度，好书！
0 有用 nono 2024-04-10 11:33:43 北京
从对McCandless的不理解（甚至可以说是厌恶）到敬佩和尊重，这是我读这本书的收获。
0 有用 小猪和他的朋友 2024-04-04 12:30:01 北京
值得年轻人讨论的书。
0 有用 Loro 2024-03-31 13:39:18 北京
"Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, / Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell / And the profit and loss."