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Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book Into the Wild (1996) expands upon his 1993 Outside article and retraces McCandless's travels leading up to the hiker's eventual death. McCandless's story was adapted by screenwriter Chip Johannessen into a 1998 episode of Chris Carter 's television series Millennium , titled "Luminary."
Richard Louis Proenneke (/ ˈ p r ɛ n ə k iː /; May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1968–1998) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.
Velma Wallis (5 November 2013). Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival.Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-224499-4. (reprint 2004) Velma Wallis: Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend Of Betrayal, Courage And Survival, The Women's Press Ltd, (UK), 2000, 160 p., ISBN 978-0-7043-4424-2, ISBN 0-7043-4424-6
Book cover of 81 Days Below Zero. A book about Leon Crane's survival story was written by Washington Post journalist Brian Murphy and his wife, Toula Vlahou, called 81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska’s Frozen Wilderness.
His first book, The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival, released in 2002 by The Ecco Press, is a memoir that tells the story of the author's friendship with the Japanese wildlife photographer Michio Hoshino, who is killed by a brown bear in the Kurilskoya brown-bear refuge on the Kamchatka Peninsula on August 8, 1996.
Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. [2] The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.