... , Boris Pasternak, and the Jules Verne character Captain Nemo. Growing up, he waited until the time was right to begin his journey across the country and into the wilderness. John Krakauer wrote: Five weeks earlier he"d loaded his belongings into his car and headed west without an itinerary. The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the ... achieving them for any extended time period. Works Cited Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Ed. William L. Andrews, and William S. McFeely. New York: Norton. Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. N...

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