Jon Krakauer 'Into the Wild'

Jon Krakauer on raamatu kirja saanud ebaharilikus stiilis, suuresti põhineb eelnevalt ilmutet' artiklile ajakirjas 'Outside'. Lugu ei jookse mitte loogilise aegreana, vaid avab peatükk peatüki kaupa uusi tahke, mõtte konstruktsioone lähtuvalt kirjaniku enda kogemustest ning paralleeli otsingudest teiste sarnaste juhtumitega. Välja tuuaksegi huvitavad nimed nagu Everett Reuss, Carl McCunn, John Mallon Waterman, John Menlove Edwards, kelle ebatavaliste elulugudega tasub tutvuda.

Raamatust endast veel mõned tabavamad ütelungid:

Everett Ruess

'It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself.'

Everett Ruess
'I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You can not comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all the lone trail is the best.'

Jon Krakauer
'We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.'

John Muir
'But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us ...'

Lev Tolstoi
'I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor—such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps—what can more the heart of man desire?'