Read Into the Wild

Christopher McCandless walks into Alaska and the abandoned bus; Sean Penn's adaptation of Krakauer.

Krakauer on the 1996 Everest disaster he survived.

Twins in Alaska and a shared memory; Dontnod's quiet mystery.

A Californian dog stolen to pull sleds in the Klondike remembers being a wolf.

Shackleton's ship crushed in the ice and every man brought home; Lansing's telling.

Percy Fawcett vanishes in the Amazon in 1925 and Grann goes to look.

Two years in a cabin by a pond; Thoreau on living deliberately.

Rachel Carson on DDT and the birds that stopped singing; the book that started environmentalism.