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Podcast: The Art of Manliness
Episode: The Stranger in the Woods — The Story of the Last True Hermit
Description: Editor's Note: This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally aired in November 2017.
Have you ever just wanted to get in your car, drive off into the middle of nowhere, leave behind the hustle and bustle of civilization, and just be by yourself?
Well, in 1986 a man named Christopher Knight did just that and lived alone in the Maine woods without any, any human contact for 27 years until he was discovered in 2013.
My guest today wrote a biography — The Stranger in the Woods — about this man who locals called “the Hermit of the North Pond.”...