Into The Wild Summary

Into The Wild

Into The Wild is non-fiction book by Jon Krakauer.  The main character is named Christopher McCandless and the book is mainly about his adventures in the wild.  The book is an expansion of Jon’s article “Death of the Innocent” which came out in January, 1993.  In 2007, it was made into a movie.  “Krakauer concluded in the book that McCandless died from eating the seed pods of Hedysarum alpinum, commonly known in Alaska as the wild potato, which supposedly contained a toxic alkaloid that led to his starvation.”