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Jon Krakauer on the 25th Anniversary of ‘Into the Wild’

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The Wild Truth by Corrine McAnlis

The book stops McAnlis' narrative. And then we hear about you for a couple of chapters. When I first read in the wild, the two chapters that just grabbed me by the lapels were the ones about your adventure on the devil's thumb. "I was going to throw everything I had at this to make it good," says author and climber Chris McCandless.

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