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Originally Posted by caleb72
Wow - that sounds like an amazing book! Doesn't seem to be available in ebook, at least in Australia. I'll keep my eye open for that one.
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It
is a great book, as long as you remember that much of it is conjecture pieced together from a handful of eyewitness accounts after McCandless abandoned his car, and from a few physical clues where his body was found Alaska. Krakauer creates what I like to call near non-fiction. Just like Junger did with the
Andrea Gail in
The Perfect Storm. There's nothing wrong with that at all. I just think it's important to keep it in mind when reading.
Into Thin Air is another book of his that's great. It tells of a tragic Mount Everest Expedition that Krakauer himself was actually a member of.
He's excellent at what he does, but I just don't take his words as "gospel truth" (which is not meant to be as critical as it may sound).