On September 12, 2013, I posted an article titled “How Chris McCandless Died” on this Web site, in which I reported that McCandless, the subject of my book “Into the Wild,” seemed to have inadvertently poisoned himself in 1992, in the Alaska bush, by eating seeds from a plant known colloquially as wild potato, and known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum. In the first edition of my book, I had speculated that a toxic alkaloid in the...
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