Into The Wild
by Jon Krakauer
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Title: Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
Type of work: Book-length journalistic essay
Genre: Creative nonfiction
Original language: English
First published: 1996
Set in: Various locations throughout the United States and Mexico. Much of the book’s action takes place in the western U.S. and Alaska.
Narrator: The author, Jon Krakauer
Point of view: Third-person limited; Krakauer sometimes imagines the feelings of other people.
Tense: Past
Protagonist: Christopher McCandless, a.k.a. Alexander Supertramp
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