He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naivet, pretensions, and hubris. Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.
Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away.
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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.
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In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. 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. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. 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. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. Itch.In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. Tables upon tables of random diseases, wilderness dressings, traps, hazards, flora, encounters, and MORE.Īll illustrated with over 150 pieces of original art. Rules for hunting, tracking, and butchering monsters.Ĥ0+ spells and rules for channeling the Wyrd.Īn essay and guideline on running and creating "wilderness dungeons."Ī step-by-step guide for generating your own wilderness adventure. Rules for Moon Cycles and strange phases. Presented within the book is a light overhaul of the adventuring system, modified to fit better with a campaign centered around forays into the frightening wilderness. Players and GMs who enjoy a level of horror and prefer the sweeping, darkened landscapes of forest and mires to the well-trodden cobblestone of dungeons need look no further when it comes to books. Into the Wyrd and Wild is a supplemental book for those seeking to incorporate a weird and terrifying wilderness into their role-playing game. There is no bargaining with the primal forces that rule the uncivilized world, as you have nothing they could ever want. It is a world of fear, madness, and bloodshed ruled over by the uncaring watch of ancient trees.
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This is not the woods of peaceful fey and beast, but the dark and twisted children’s tale that kept you full of terror. A shadowed tree-line where no-one dares cross and whose boundaries go undisturbed. Beyond the reach of roads, past the scope of mortals there is a darkened place.
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