Into the Wild Preliminary Summary

Into the wild is a book about a writer who finds the body of a young man in an abandoned bus.    He found that there was a journal with him.  How he died is unknown, but there are theories.  His journal told his adventure in detail.  The two years after he graduated from college he spent wandering in the wilderness while eating wild plants and shooting game for food.  This writer that found him traveled the root that the dead man took. He then wrote an article about it.  The book is an extension of the article.  They have even made a movie that they adapted about it.