| The McCandless Mecca: A Pilgrimage to the Magic Bus of the Stampede Trail Contributor(s): Spice, Josh (Photographer), Ilgunas, Ken (Author) |
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ISBN: 1949450007 ISBN-13: 9781949450002 Publisher: Acorn Abbey Books OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Physical Information: 0.17" H x 5.08" W x 7.8" (0.19 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The Stampede Trail has become a passageway on which hikers and hunters, seekers and sportsmen, Speedoed mountain bikers and North Slope militiamen cross paths. The Magic Bus is becoming a national shrine, a holy pilgrim site, a modern-day Mecca. And I was determined to see it, too." So writes Ken Ilgunas, who, in the summer of 2011, moved up to Alaska to, like thousands before him, embark on a pilgrimage to explore the storied bus of the Stampede Trail-the very bus in which Chris McCandless of Into the Wild died twenty years before. What was supposed to be little more than a "literary tour" of a book that Ilgunas had "merely enjoyed," would become a humorous, thought-provoking, and, at times, treacherous journey to the very heart of Alaska. |