Quoting Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, Villard, Ch. 9. Davis Gulch, 1996

They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that […] one is moved by their courage, their reckless innocence, and the urgency of their desire.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, Villard, Ch. 9. Davis Gulch, 1996

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