In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. 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. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...

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Written in 1789, Perkins's "lively and uncensored opinions make his intimate journal at once a highly realistic and most amusing portrayal of social conditions in the raw new frontier settlements of Vermont two years before it became a state." ... Perkins was "the congregational pastor of the Third Church in West Hartford, Connecticut, was consedered one of the most eminent divines of his day."--(introduction.)

stories and sayings of old Vermonters, matched with photographs.

An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.