North to Alaska Why did Chris McCandless turn his back on society and disappear into the wild Into the Wild By Jon Krakauer Villard; 207 pages; $22 cloth. Reviewed by Gordon Young The text on the dust jacket of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild makes it clear that the thread of suspense running through this compelling book isn't necessarily tied to the fate of its subject. In April 1992 a young man ...

Into the Woods A Sermon Given by Henry Ticknor July 26, 1998 at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church Bethesda, Maryland In April 1992, Christopher Johnson McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family in the Northern Virginia suburb of Annandale, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He carried with him a ten-pound bag of rice, a ...