Into the Wild

Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. The book depicts the two-year wilderness trek of Christopher McCandless from 1990 through 1992 and is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article, "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside.^[1] The book was adapted into a 2007 movie of the same name directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.