Books for the magic bus?

September 8, 2008 1:42 AM

Into the Wild: what were the books which Chris McCandless took with him and read on the magic bus?
posted by humuhumu to Writing & Language (3 answers total)

Best answer: Tanaina Plantlore: Dena'ina K'et'una: An Ethnobotany of the Dena'ina Indians of Southcentral Alaska.

Thoreau's 'Walden'

Tolstoy's 'Family Happiness' & 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'

Boris Pasternak 'Doctor Zhivago'

Michael Crichton 'The Terminal Man'

Titles by Gogol,, Robert Pirsig, Louis L'Amour
posted by dydecker at 2:28 AM on September 8, 2008 [2 favorites]

He also took a locally-purchased book about the regional flora and fauna.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 4:58 AM on September 8, 2008

I think he also took Jack London's The Call of the Wild.
posted by self at 5:18 AM on September 8, 2008