Into The Wild Journal

      "On the face of it, Bullhead City doesn't seem like the kind of place that would appeal to an adherent of Thoreau and Tolstoy...

      "Shortly after the moose episode McCandless began to read Thoreau's Walden. In the chapter titled "Higher Laws," in...

      "Chastity and moral purity were qualities McCandless mulled over long and often. Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with h...

      "No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the ...

      "Lori Zarza, the second manager, has a somewhat different impression of McCandless. "Frankly, I was surprised he ever got hi...

      "Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, t...

      "The boy made some mistakes on the Stampede Trail, but confusing a caribou with a moose wasn't among them." Chapter 17....