Digitally Exploring the world

" Into the Wild . By Jon Krakauer " - This is one of those book's that has had an everlasting impression on me. It was probably about a decade back when I first read it when my mum lent it out from the library. I had never heard or read about Christopher McCandless till then. It was really difficult to get a copy of the book those days, but my mum did surprise me with a copy of the book in the coming days,something I treasure till this day. Chris, was an intelligent young man ( He graduated in June 1990 from Emory University in Atlanta, where he distinguished himself as a history/anthropology major and was also offered membership in Phi Beta Kappa, but declined it, insisting that titles and honors were of no importance) . He was also an accomplished athlete, and a veteran of several solo excursions into wild, inhospitable terrain. After graduating he donated the entire amount of $20,000 in his account , to Oxford Famine Relief Fund. Then, without notifying any friends ...

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” -Jack Kerouac "I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. " -Jack Kerouac Last sunday(20th May) was one of those days when you just wanted to go and pickup a book that you had been looking for in awhile. One just had this premonition about getting the hard to find book ! There it was in the 2nd hand bookshop, just a single copy waiting to be read . I got back home and started reading the 300 odd pages and just couldn't keep it down. Its mostly an autobiographical work of Kerouac which he wrote in an inspirational 3 weeks marathon session, which was later edited a bit before publication...