“I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS All!”
Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html
Christopher Johnson McCandless dit « Alexander Supertramp » est un aventurier américain, qui a fait l'objet du récit biographique Voyage au bout de la solitude de Jon Krakauer adapté au cinéma en 2007 par Sean Penn sous le titre Into the Wild .
“I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS All!”
Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html
“HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.”
Written on a page in his copy of Doctor Zhivago
He is attributed to have commented on this Doctor Zhivago passage: "And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness..." (Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, Pan Macmillan, 2011 p. 188; see also http://www.christophermccandless.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5479)
Disputed
Carved into a sheet of plywood inside the "Magic Bus", May 2, 1992
In a postcard sent to Wayne Westerberg, April 27, 1992.
Source: Mary Ellen Barnes (ed.). Back to the Wild (2nd ed.). Twin Star Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9833955-0-8. (pp. 172-173)
In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992
Source: Mary Ellen Barnes (ed.). Back to the Wild (2nd ed.). Twin Star Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9833955-0-8. (pp. 135-137)
In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992
Final jounal entry, August 8, 1992. http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html
Writing on religious fanaticism in The Emory Wheel student newspaper, October 1987
S. O. S. note http://www.christophermccandless.info/images/chris-mccandless_sos_lancastria.jpg