... was or even where to start looking. McCandless was a stubborn young man and did not mesh well with what was considered modern society. He was captivated by the writings of Leo Tolstoy. He admired how the great novelist had a life of wealth and privilege. Chris McCandless was out in the wilderness for sixteen weeks. In the end, he was found by a moose ... ...

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... to his family, he burned the cash in his wallet, and finally he set off across America on a quest for moral rigor and asceticism (sparked by reading the writings of Leo Tolstoy). As Krakauer writes, McCandless invented "an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience."" He also renamed himself as Alexander Supertramp ... ...

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