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The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild by Carine McCandless

The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild runs 8.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Carine McCandless (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.8listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2014released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild at common listening paces
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30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.8 hours, it runs longer than 64% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild is an audiobook by Carine McCandless: a 8.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Carine McCandless, released November 20, 2014, on the Memoirs and Relationships & Intimacy shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.8 hrs
Narrated by
Carine McCandless
Released
November 20, 2014
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs, Relationships & Intimacy
ISBN
9780008115708

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild as an audiobook?

The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild runs 8.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.

Is The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild?

The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild is narrated by Carine McCandless.