Chris felt that his body was weakening, that he was losing weight fast, that his end was near. Goodbye and may God bless you all!” is the entry in the diary, dated 12 August 1992. “I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. The entries in Chris’ diary also show the influence of Jack London. – One thing that he did have plenty of stock though, were books, among them works by Henry David Thoreau, Boris Pasternak and Leo Tolstoy. If it hadn’t been for a helpful gentleman who had given Chris a lift on the last leg of his hitch-hiking journey to Alaska, Chris wouldn’t even have had proper boots. Chris had neither taken a compass, nor a lot of other useful gear. From there, he set out to collect food and hunt animals. Chris stumbled across a derelict bus (pictured on the cover of the book, above) which he made his home. His dream had been to live in the wilderness of Alaska, without any contact with or support by the outside world. Such read the postcard that Chris had mailed to a friend on 27 April 1992.
If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know you’re a great man. It might be a very long time before I return South. Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. “Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me, Wayne. “Into the Wild” is the real story of Christopher McCandless, a young American who decided to roam the wilderness of the United States after graduating from university and who eventually died of starvation in Alaska, aged 24.
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