Author: Stephen M. WiederPublisher:
ISBN: 9781961186255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Giant in the North Maine Woods
Author: Stephen M. WiederPublisher:
ISBN: 9781961186255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Stranger in the Woods
Author: Michael FinkelPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101911530
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. “A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival.” —The Wall Street Journal In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life—why did he leave? what did he learn?—as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.
True Story
Author: Michael FinkelPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062436465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The improbable but true story of a man accused of murdering his entire family and the journalist he impersonated while on the run In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under extraordinary pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any contact with the media. When the phone rang, though, he couldn’t resist. At the other end was a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, whom Finkel congratulated on being the first in what was sure to be a long and bloodthirsty line of media watchdogs. The reporter was puzzled. In Waldport, Oregon, Christian Longo had killed his young wife and three children and dumped their bodies into the bay. With a stolen credit card, he fled south, making his way to Cancun, where he lived for several weeks under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel, journalist for the New York Times. True Story is the tale of a bizarre and convoluted collision between fact and fiction, and a meditation on the slippery nature of truth. When Finkel contacts Longo in jail, the two men begin a close and complex relationship. Over the course of a year, they exchange long letters and weekly phone calls, playing out a cat-and-mouse game in which it’s never quite clear if the pursuer is Finkel or Longo—or both. Finkel’s dogged pursuit of the true story pays off only at the end, in the gripping trial scenes in which Longo, after a lifetime of deception, finally tells the whole truth. Or so he says.
Checkpoint Chatter
Author: Faye O'Leary HaffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In the North Woods of Maine
Author: Elmer Erwin ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Maine's Golden Road
Author: John GouldPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393038064
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Maine's Golden Road is a memoir of the annual vacation John Gould took for thirty-two consecutive summers with his daughter's father-in-law, Bill Dornbusch.
The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods
Author: Andrew M. BartonPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584658320
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The ecology of the ever-changing Maine forest
Mythical Creatures of Maine
Author: Christopher PackardPublisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608937275
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Maine folklore is rich in tales of humans confronted by strange beasts, both wonderful and terrifying. The Abenaki, or “First People” had their tales of Glooskap and Pamola. Other tales came with European settlers; and others sprang up almost out of nothing around the fires of the logging camps. Based on meticulous research into these legends and folk tales, this volume is an encyclopedia, a field guide to the creatures that can be found in Maine and beyond. While the tales are whimsical and fun, they can also be considered serious scholarship.
Timberrr...
Author: Mary Morton CowanPublisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 9780761318668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
An illustrated history of the New England forests, from colonial days when settlers freely used the trees for warmth and housing to today's tensions between environmentalists and the logging industry.
Author: George M. Houghton