![]() Without saying a word to friends or family, he went on a road trip that eventually led him to the shores of Moosehead Lake in Maine. Then, when he was 20, he suddenly quit his job. Knight’s boyhood and adolescence had been ordinary his most outstanding traits were his shyness and penchant for solitude. Fascinated, the author sought out the “North Pond hermit” to learn why he had turned his back on society and understand the challenges he now faced with reintegration. ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() While scanning the news online, Finkel ( True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, 2005) came across the story of Christopher Knight. A journalist’s account of a Massachusetts man who went deep into the Maine woods to live a life of solitude and self-sufficiency. ![]()
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