《Into the Wild》简介：

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.

《Into the Wild》摘录：

勇敢地做你以前从未想过、做过或犹豫半天却不敢尝试的事。这么多人活得很不快乐，但却不主动改变这种情况，因为他们受到安全、服从、保守主义的生活观念制约。这样的生活虽然表面上能够给人心灵上的宁静，但其实安全的未来最伤害人心中冒险的灵魂。人的灵魂中，最基本的核心是他对冒险的热爱。人生的欢乐来自我们的新体验，因此再没有比每天面对不同的地平线和新太阳，更能令人心生喜悦。如果你想从生命中活得更多，就必须先放弃自己追求安全、一成不变的习惯，接纳起初也许令你觉得疯狂的、看似狼狈的生活方式。