Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Literary Amplification: Jon Krakauer's Use Of Intertextual References In Into The Wild And Their Role In The Mccandless Phenomenon, Wyatt Merkley
Literary Amplification: Jon Krakauer's Use Of Intertextual References In Into The Wild And Their Role In The Mccandless Phenomenon, Wyatt Merkley
2016 Undergraduate Awards
In the summer of 2013 alone, twelve hikers had to be air-rescued off the remote Stampede Trail in the Northern Alaskan wilderness. The route is not particularly accessible or particularly beautiful, and it covers twenty-two miles of soggy, bug-infested, beaver-ponds and muskeg. Throughout the year, powerful rivers of glacial snow-melt cross the path; only in the winter and early spring is it even remotely safe or easy to follow the trail. In her 2013 essay “Chasing Alexander Supertramp,” Eva Holland quotes one Alaskan woman who, shaking her head, pronounced “of all the places you could hike in Alaska…” Yet each …