"McCandless’ short but epic adventure began in the early summer of 1990. After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Chris took to the road in his yellow Datsun for what his parents thought would be another summer of travelling. Chris had other ideas however. Deeply admiring authors and philosophers such as Jack London, Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy, McCandless, wishing to introduce many of their ideals into his own way of life; went into the wild"