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Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.

Jon Krakauer

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.

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But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

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I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

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The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

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The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

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About Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling non-fiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.