Into the Wild 1st (first) Edition by Krakauer, Jon published by Anchor (1997)

Based on the author's personal experience as a survivor of the Holocaust and the experience of individuals she has come across in her practice as a pediatrician and psychoanalyst and in her personal life, And You Shall Tell Your Children is a synthesis that describes the process of passage from death to life and gathers inherited Jewish wisdom. Focusing on the people of Israel, the land of Israel, and the Torah, the book espouses a message of resilience in the face of a sometimes-cruel reality. This volume offers a professional and human analysis of the "pathology" of the survivor and the process of overcoming this handicap in order to rehabilitate oneself, enabling readers to identify with this process when facing their own difficulties and to rebuild their present lives in a positive way., In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and , unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.