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This classic essay from jon krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. Jon krakauer landed arguably the greatest onetwo punch in outdoor literature when he published 1996s into the wild, about the wanderer chris mccandless, followed a year later by into thin air. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Krakauer brings mccandlesss uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understandingand not an ounce of sentimentality.

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