The Stranger In The Woods Michael Finkel Review

The chapters are short so that one can read briefly each night and still make significant headway in a few weeks.

The stranger in the woods michael finkel review. On a practical level michael finkel has written this biographical account excellently. A journalist s account of a massachusetts man who went deep into the maine woods to live a life of solitude and self sufficiency. The stranger in the woods is ultimately a meditation on the pains of social. The book is written well leaving you wanting more and more of the story when the chapters end.

More important finkel finds a way in a brief 190 pages to bring us well beyond the mere facts of the case. While scanning the news online finkel true story. Not really the story of christopher knight living in solitude in the wilderness for 27 years is remarkable. Read a q a with michael finkel about the stranger in the woods.

This incredible book the stranger in the woods. Murder memoir mea culpa 2005 came across the story of christopher knight. Stranger in the woods by michael finkel review a profound hermit. This book tells the story of christopher knight who became known as the north pond hermit.

Police officers had arrested knight for burglary but when they questioned him further they discovered that their suspect had been living alone in the wild for 27 years.