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	The Cult of Chris McCandless
		To reach the spot where McCandless died we forded two rivers, the Savage and the Teklanika, the latter milky with glacial till and running so high and swift it had come up to our seats when we plowed through, nearly drowning the air intake on the Ranger.
		A memorial plaque to McCandless is screwed to the inside of the bus, bearing a message from his family that ends with the phrase "We commend his soul to the world." Inside a beat-up suitcase on a table are a half-dozen tattered notebooks.
		In Penn's telling McCandless is poisoned by mistaking wild potato for a similar plant, wild sweet pea, though according to Clausen's research that plant is equally harmless.
	www.mensjournal.com /feature/M162/M162_TheCultofChrisMcCandless.html (3762 words)

	Into the Wild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After graduating from Emory, McCandless abandoned his car, burned all of his money, gave away his savings of $24,000 to OXFAM, and disappeared, only to be found several months later by moose hunters, dead in the Alaskan wilderness.
		The book begins with Christopher's body being found near an abandoned bus and retraces where he traveled during the two years he was missing, including time he spent in Carthage, South Dakota, with a man named Wayne Westerberg and in California under the name Alexander Supertramp.
		McCandless died after 112 days in the Alaskan wilderness, apparently after having eaten wild potato seeds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Into_the_Wild (540 words)

	Christopher McCandless - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher J. McCandless (February 12, 1968 – August 1992) was an adventurer who died near Denali National Park after hiking alone into the Alaskan wilderness with little food or equipment.
		McCandless had dreamt of an "Alaskan Odyssey" for years; he would live off the land, far away from civilization, and keep a journal describing his physical and spiritual progress as he faced the forces of nature.
		McCandless was unaware that a hand-operated tram crossed the river a quarter mile from the Stampede Trail, while a nearby shelter was stocked with emergency supplies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_McCandless (1241 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Christopher McCandless (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McCandless was exhilarated, so much so that he decided to bury most of his worldly possessions in the parched earth of Detrital Wash and then—in a gesture that would have done Tolstoy proud—burned his last remaining cash, about $160 in small bills.
		McCandless could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify throughout his college years.
		McCandless doesn't really conform to the common bush-casualty stereotype: He wasn't a kook, he wasn't an outcast, and although he was rash and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he was hardly incompetent or he would never have lasted 113 days.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Christopher-McCandless (2150 words)

	Christopher McCandless - Wikipedia
		McCandless zog mit minimaler Ausrüstung durch die USA, um existenziellen seelischen Nöten zu entfliehen bzw.
		Nach der Überquerung eines Flusses traf Christopher McCandless nach vier Tagen Marsch auf einen Bus, der einmal als Unterkunft diente für die Mannschaft eines kleineren Bergwerkes.
		Christopher kehrte zum Bus zurück und hoffte, dass er noch davonkommen würde.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_McCandless (1302 words)

	Christopher Mccandless - Somni-Forum
		McCandless was in fact an honors graduate of Emory University, an accomplished athlete, and a veteran of several solo excursions into wild, inhospitable terrain.
		McCandless had graduated in June 1990 from Emory University in Atlanta, where he distinguished himself as a history/anthropology major and was offered but declined membership in Phi Beta Kappa, insisting that titles and honors were of no importance.
		McCandless tramped around the West for the next two months, spellbound by the scale and power of the landscape, thrilled by minor brushes with the law, savoring the intermittent company of other vagabonds he met along the way.
	opium.poppies.org /index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=8211&view=old (3416 words)

	Death of an InnocentHow Christopher McCandless lost his way in the wildsBy Jon Krakauer-
		McCandless was exhilarated, so much so that he decided to bury most of his worldly possessions in the parched earth of Detrital Wash and then—in a gesture that would have done Tolstoy proud—burned his last remaining cash, about $160 in small bills.
		McCandless could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify throughout his college years.
		McCandless doesn't really conform to the common bush-casualty stereotype: He wasn't a kook, he wasn't an outcast, and although he was rash and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he was hardly incompetent or he would never have lasted 113 days.
	employees.csbsju.edu /gwalker/Classes/Symposium/deathof.htm (7622 words)

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		Westerberg had employed McCandless on several occasions and was McCandless’ mentor, a father figure, in the latter part of the period between McCandless’ college graduation in 1990 and his death in 1992.
		McCandless’ story includes a drive west across the U.S. in a run down Datsun, brief residence in Davis Gulch on Lake Powell in Utah, riding the rails as a hobo from southern California to Seattle.
		This diversion in the McCandless story was Krakauer’s way to explore the thoughts that McCandless may have had as McCandless sought to demonstrate to himself that he could survive in the Alaska wilderness with only a bag of rice, his rifle and fishing gear along with the clothing on his back.
	home.att.net /~pfrswr/kraka_96.doc (979 words)

	Into the Wild (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge.
		McCandless was a man generous and friendly to strangers, indifferent and callous to his parents.
		I found Christopher McCandless's "adventures" to be nothing more than the aimless, boring wanderings of a young man without a purpose to guide him and caring only about himself.
	biographies-memoirs.investitor.net /reviews/books/4/into_the_wild.php (1156 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Jon Krakauer
		With the demise of McCandless already revealed, Krakauer concentrates on the forces that drove the devotee of Thoreau, Tolstoy and Jack London to the icy environs of Alaska and, ultimately, to his death.
		While McCandless viewed nature and solitude as the keys to fulfillment, he profoundly touched those he encountered on the road prior to his fatal journey to Alaska.
		Although McCandless would probably scoff at the notion, he is a profoundly American figure, uncompromising in his approach and thoroughly optimistic about the future.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.15.96/krakauer-9607.html (923 words)

	Christopher McCandless (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A top student from Emory University, Christopher McCandless (February 12, 1968 - August, 1992) spent several months tramping around the United States, including a brief trip to Mexico, from 1990 to 1992.
		Inspired by Thoreau and Tolstoy, he donated his entire savings account to charity (Oxfam), cut off contact with his friends and family, and rid himself of all his possessions.
		His body, along with a diary, were found by hunters four months after he had entered the bush.
	christopher-mccandless.area51.ipupdater.com (139 words)

	Back to the Wild (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McCandless, at the young age of 23, made the bus and its surroundings his home for over 100 days, subsisting off the land and a ten pound bag of rice.
		McCandless experience these things, but unfortunately was not able to share it with anyone.
		Christopher McCandless was found dead in the back of the bus after an entire summer.
	www.alaskapacific.edu /academics/backtothewild.htm (1193 words)

	Lonewolf-Grzle's Wilderness Survival
		The death note above authored by Chris McCandless was found by a hunter taped to the outside of an abandoned bus hauled in by hunters into the wilderness north of Denali National Park.
		It is believed that McCandless kept the log updated until the day he died in the arms of the unforgiving Alaska Wilderness.
		McCandless wrote,"It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant of joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found.
	www.geocities.com /yosemite/rapids/8017/index2.html (2833 words)

	Adventures of Alexander Supertramp - New York Times
		Somehow McCandless grubbed a living from the snows -- gathering last year's rose hips and wizened berries, shooting squirrels, ptarmigans, porcupines and finally, in June, with his puny little.22, a moose.
		Wherever he went, McCandless sought out the detritus of the society of privilege whose child he was -- the son of accomplished, prosperous parents (his father was an outstanding scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
		Christopher McCandless's life and his death may have been meaningless, absurd, even reprehensible, but by the end of "Into the Wild," you care for him deeply.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E3DC1E39F930A35750C0A960958260&sec=&pagewanted=print (1042 words)

	BookPage Review: Into the Wild (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The resulting article described a young man by the name of Christopher McCandless-a young man who ended up dead in the Alaskan wilderness because of a convoluted mixture of immense personal desire, an unforgiving respect for nature, and a degree of unintended recklessness.
		The result is Into the Wild, a fascinating matrix of stories describing McCandless and his adventurous life, mingled with tales of the author and others who, like McCandless, possess the burning desire to compete with nature under extreme circumstances.
		The image of McCandless is one of a nature-loving nomad who lived in campgrounds, hitched rides, hopped trains, and tested his will and endurance to survive in the wilderness of North America.
	www.bookpage.com /9601bp/nonfiction/intothewild.html (397 words)

	nidus: "A Man Made Cold by the Universe" by Sherry Simpson
		McCandless had hiked about 25 miles along the trail before stopping at a rusting Fairbanks city bus left there in the 1960s by roadbuilders creating a route from the highway to the Stampede Mine, near the park boundary.
		Christopher McCandless's mother had filled it with survival gear and left it, and over the years other people have removed things or added to it.
		Poor Christopher McCandless, entombed by the tributes of his pilgrims, forever wandering between the world he wanted and the world that exists, still trapped by other people's desires to make him something he is not -- which is why he came out here in the first place.
	www.pitt.edu /~nidus/archives/spring2003/manmadecold.html (7238 words)

	Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches: Christopher McCandless
		McCandless was strongly influenced by Jack London, Leo Tolstoy and Henry David Thoreau, and he dreamed about leaving society for a Thoreau-like period of solitary contemplation.
		Peace is a gift from God, not a one-with-nature location (where life is by definition "nasty, brutish and short") or, a blind-to-consequences adventuresome lifestyle....ask London or, Thoreau if they got what they came for...I'm inclined to think that they came away lacking.
		Like a lot of people, McCandless had some issues to deal with before he could ever find the true happiness he was after.
	exquisitelyboredinnacogdoches.blogspot.com /2008/04/christopher-mccandless.html (676 words)

	Press: I Want To Ride In The Bus Chris Died In (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McCandless had hiked about 25 miles along the trail before stopping at a rusting Fairbanks city bus left there in the 1960s by a crew building a road from the highway to the Stampede Mine, near the Park boundary.
		Like McCandless, he’d attended Emory University, and he and his wife had recently moved to Anchorage in search of whatever it is people want when they come to Alaska.
		As he was dying, Christopher McCandless took a picture of himself propped against the bus.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/documentb965.html (5704 words)

	Into the Wild (ISBN 0385486804): Very Well Said™ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The body of Christopher Johnson McCandless was found in August 1992, four months after he had set out to Alaska and two years after he had gone missing from his home and family.
		Since the tome starts at the end of McCandless' journey, the rest of the story is lengthy in describing the rising action building up to the climax, and it is difficult at times to connect the present with his eventual death in the future.
		Ultimately, the only good thing about McCandless' lonely death is that he didn't end up in a situation where some search and rescue person would have to come after him, and possibly lose his or her life.
	verywellsaid.com /titles/i/into-the-wild-0385486804.php (12074 words)

	books - Page 1 at Think Bling
		Krakauer paints a sympathetic picture of Christopher McCandless, and provides a detailed and comprehensive accounting of his travels prior to his excursion into the Alaskan wild.
		Certainly McCandless was not crazy or mentally imbalanced, and the impact he had on those who knew him (even if only briefly) speaks to his charisma.
		Krakauer, to some extent addresses this as well, attempting to understand the motives behind McCandless' foolishness, relating an event from his own youth in which he attempted a similar test of his mettle.
	www.thinkbling.com /detail.php?ASIN=0385486804 (791 words)

	Chris McCandless - Death of an Innocent \| Outside Online
		He was the product of a happy family from an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C. And although he wasn't burdened with a surfeit of common sense and possessed a streak of stubborn idealism that did not readily mesh with the realities of modern life, he was no psychopath.
		McCandless was in fact an honors graduate of Emory University, an accomplished athlete, and a veteran of several solo excursions into wild, inhospitable terrain.
		Instead, the name of Chris McCandless has become the stuff of tabloid headlines, and his bewildered family is left clutching the shards of a fierce and painful love.
	outside.away.com /outside/features/1993/1993_into_the_wild_2.html (995 words)

	White mother attacked by rock throwing negro - Hate Crime - NNN Reporters Newsroom (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kim McCandless, of West Islip, was driving to the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa on Monday with her two daughters, a niece and a nephew, all between 7 months and 4 years old, when the concrete struck her windshield.
		McCandless said she made eye contact with the attacker before he threw the concrete.
		McCandless said she got out of the car, wanting "to scream," and checked on the children, who were crying.
	www.newnation.info /forums/showthread.php?t=42019 (1244 words)

	snoozebutton \| Into The Wild by John Krakauer
		This book works for a couple different reasons: Krakauer is both a good writer and a good reporter; and he has honed in on a fascinating subject with which you can’t help becoming involved with for a few hundred pages.
		The premise of this true story is relatively simple: an upper middle class kid named Christopher McCandless graduates with honors from Emory University, gives away his $25,000 savings and disappears from the lives of his family without a note or a phone call.
		This task was made easier by the gregarious and memorable personality of McCandless and the neat trail of postcards and letters he sent to various people he met along the way.
	www.snoozebutton.com /www/index.php?p=16 (555 words)

	WhiteBlaze - What do you make of Alexander Supertramp?
		Within the first few pages of the book is a self-portrait McCandless shot in which he is seated in a chair leaning back against the abandoned bus which served as his final camp and the place of his death.
		I may relate to McCandless at a visceral level, in that I relate to some of the feelings he had toward societal ills and conventions which most of us simply accept and become callused to or at least make the attempt to become callused to.
		I may relate to McCandless at a visceral level, in that I relate to some of the feelings he had toward societal ills which most of us simply accept and become callused to.
	www.whiteblaze.net /forum/printthread.php?t=7646 (3408 words)

	VSU Spectator
		A photo Chris McCandless took of himself in Alaska during the spring of 1992.
		A smart, well-educated man, McCandless was a Emory University graduate, and his family expected him to attend law school.
		McCandless took his $25,000 intended for law school and donated it to a charity.
	www.valdosta.edu /spec/20011129/features4.shtml (526 words)

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