The Stranger In The Woods By Michael Finkel

The extraordinary story of the last true hermit hardcover deckle edge march 7 2017 by michael finkel author.

The stranger in the woods by michael finkel.

The extraordinary story of the last true hermit started as a phenomenally popular magazine article in gq. As ever michael finkel s voice in this fresh new chronicle is clean clear lucid his attention fair and compassionate. A journalist s account of a massachusetts man who went deep into the maine woods to live a life of solitude and self sufficiency. Michael finkel s the stranger in the woods is the mesmerizing account of christopher knight s disappearance into maine s forests for 27 years.

For reasons knight himself never fully articulates he abandoned civilization for a hermit s life in his early twenties. The stranger in the woods is an altogether surprising page turner that helps us to see his twisted saint s essential sanity and in so doing to question our own lawrence weschler author of mr wilson s cabinet of wonder and waves passing in the night. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of maine for twenty seven years making this dream a reality not out of anger at the world but simply because he preferred to live on his own. Through letters and interviews the author learns about his origins survival tactics and burglary raids that made him a local legend.

It s campfire friendly and thermos ready easily drained in one warm rummy slug. Murder memoir mea culpa 2005 came across the story of christopher knight. While scanning the news online finkel true story. Michael finkel s the stranger in the woods.

The stranger in the woods. The stranger in the woods by journalist michael finkel is a 2017 nonfiction book about the north pond hermit who has lived in the maine wilderness alone for 27 years. The stranger in the woods. Many people dream of escaping modern life but most will never act on it.

According to michael finkel a great deal. This expanded version will no doubt have the same mass appeal. Out of those trips plus a blizzard of research on the history motivations cultural influences neurology and sanity of hermits came the stranger in the woods in his fascinating story.