Krakauer’s "Into the Wild" is a modern rendition of classical Monomyth, the Hero’s Journey, overlayed on the real journey of a young boy searching for meaning in his life. Jon Krakauer’s “Into the ...

6, 1992. His death there - and, later, the global attention the Into the Wild book and movie inspired - will be placed in a larger context in the eventual exhibit, Linn says. "We'll talk about the ...

McCandless eventually died of starvation in the bus, and his story was immortalized in the 'Into The Wild' book and movie, and eventually inspired countless people to make the dangerous trek out ...

The title of Vivaan Shah’s new novel, The Forsaken Wilderness, sort of prepares readers for what is in the offing—humans venturing into the abandoned wild ... the four-part book, with its ...

By 1996, he had fleshed out McCandless’s life and death in a book—the famous bestseller Into the Wild. Eleven years after that it was revisited again, as a beautiful feature film. Erik ...