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Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. [2] The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.
Jon Krakauer Krakauer, 2009 Born (1954-04-12) April 12, 1954 (age 70) Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. Alma mater Hampshire College (BA) Occupation(s) Writer, mountaineer Spouse Linda Mariam Moore (m. 1980) Writing career Period 1990–present Subject Outdoor literature Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books ...
Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book Into the Wild (1996) expands upon his 1993 Outside article and retraces McCandless's travels leading up to the hiker's eventual death. McCandless's story was adapted by screenwriter Chip Johannessen into a 1998 episode of Chris Carter 's television series Millennium , titled "Luminary."
Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn.It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless ("Alexander Supertramp"), a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s.
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Into the Wild Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing . Eleven out of twelve of the chapters were initially published between 1982 and 1989 in the magazines Outside , Smithsonian , and New Age Journal .
Into the Wild was released as a paperback in the US on 6 January 2004. [9] On 4 September 2007, the book was released as an eBook , [ 10 ] and on Amazon's Kindle . [ 11 ] The book was one of the first to be in HarperCollins' "Browse Inside" program where twenty percent of the novel is available online.
Christopher McCandless, subject of Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild (1996), later adapted as a 2007 film directed by Sean Penn; Lars Monsen, Norwegian adventurer and TV personality who once travelled on foot and by canoe and dog sled from the east coast of Canada to the west coast. The project took more than two years to complete.