The book Into the Wild by John Krakauer tells the story of Christopher McCandless a young man with a promising future who drops everything to walk into the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer describes many of the people that Christopher McCandless met along his journey, and the accounts of each of them show the lasting impression that he made. This sense of leaving a lasting impression served as the inspiration for the book cover. The idea behind the cover was to be as if Christopher McCandless was walking by the stack of logs on his journey, and just wrote out the title on the face of one them, leaving his impression for the next person to see. This in the same way McCandless's story leaves a lasting impression with everyone who reads Into the Wild.
