Full name: The McCandless Mecca: A Pilgrimage to the Magic Bus of the Stampede Trail

Author: Ken Ilgunas Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Adventure Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble

"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 author and adventurer Ken Ilgunas, who, in the summer of 2011, moved up to Alaska and, like thousands before him, embarked on 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" to a bus from a book that Ilgunas had "merely enjoyed" would become a humorous, enthralling, and, at times, treacherous journey, leading him to the very heart of Alaska. Similar books: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Road by Cormac McCarthy Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The Call of the Wild by Jack London Lord of the Flies by William Golding Deception Point by Dan Brown White Fang by Jack London The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy Nation by Terry Pratchett Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Prey by Michael Crichton The Man who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo The Terror by Dan Simmons Digital Fortress by Dan Brown