In Alaska, where fewer than a million people live in a state that is more than three times the size of France, people scoffed at the McCandless story. He was a tenderfoot - an idiot, in less charitable terms - who should have known better.
Exactly what I think. I read the book, & it made the guy seem like some sorta folk hero...the guy was just plain bored. He really should've known better.
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....he felt the prompting of his heritage, the desire to possess, the wild danger-love, the thrill of battle, the power to conquer or to die. Jack London