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Jon Krakauer Solves Mystery of Chris McCandless’ Death | “Into the Wild”

Jon Krakauer, author of the best selling book “Into the Wild,” recently wrote a piece for the New Yorker detailing how it is believed that Chris McCandless, in fact, died.  It is now understood that the wild potato seeds he’d been eating contained a nuerotoxin that causes paralysis in humans.  Therefore, Chris McCandless died of poisoning that left him unable […]

SnowBrains | September 16, 2013
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