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Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn.It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless ("Alexander Supertramp"), a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s.
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.
In the past, animals could be collected from the wild to add to captive collections and this is how people typically used to enter the hobby; [9] this changed in 1981 when all species of native gecko were granted legal protection, [9] with the exception of two species of Hoplodactylus, the forest gecko (Hoplodactylus ganulatus) and common gecko ...
David Hulin (born 1975) is a British born Animation Director and VFX Director based in New York, best known for creating iconic animated characters such as the GEICO Gecko, [1] Post Office Ants (UK), [2] Nigel the Xyzal Owl, The Lactaid Cow, as well as creatively leading many other iconic campaigns for Fedex, GE, Pepsi, M&Ms, Speedy (Alka Seltzer).
David Barnett, writing for The Guardian in 2010, praised the book series, writing that "Price not only knew all the right buttons to press to excite a young reader – exotic locations, nasty villains, wild animals and lashings of peril – but also managed to weave into his adventures a strong yet subtle conservation message." [5]
Wildwitch (Danish: Vildheks) is a children's/juvenile fantasy novel series published by Danish-born writer, Lene Kaaberbøl, from 2011 to 2014.The six-part series had its first four novels translated into English by Charlotte Barslund in 2016.
The ipilja-ipilja, or ipilya, is a giant gecko in the mythology of the Anindilyakwa people of Australia.He is considered to be the creator of rain and thunder. The ipilja-ipilja lives with his family, all giant geckos, in the Numarika swamp at the mouth of the Angoroko River of Groote Eylandt.
Gigarcanum delcourti, formerly Hoplodactylus delcourti, is an extinct species of gecko in the family Diplodactylidae.It is the largest known of all geckos, with a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 37 cm (14.6 in) and an overall length (including tail) of at least 60 cm (23.6 in). [2]