At the age of seventeen Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburbanexistence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of hisfather he l... » 

At the age of seventeen Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburbanexistence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of hisfather he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed hebuilt grew or killed. He made his clothes from deer he killed and skinnedbefore using their sinew as sewing thread. But he didn39t stopthere. In the years that followed he stopped at nothing in pursuit of biggerbolder challenges. He travelled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe hewalked the two45thousand45mile Appalachian Trail he hiked across theGerman Alps in trainers he scaled cliffs in New Zealand. One Christmas hefinished dinner with his family and promptly upped and left 45 to ride hishorse across America. From South Carolina to the Pacific with his littlebrother in tow they dodged cars on the highways ate road kill and slept onthe hard ground. Now more than twenty years on Eustace is still inthe mountains residing in a thousand45acre forest where he teaches survivalskills and attempts to instil in people a deeper appreciation of nature. Butover time he has had to reconcile his ambitious dreams with the soberingrealities of modernity. Told with Elizabeth Gilbert39s trademark witand spirit this is a fascinating intimate portrait of an endlesslycomplicated man a visionary a narcissist a brilliant but flawed modern hero.The Last American Man is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressiblelife lived to the extreme. The Last American Man is a New York Times NotableBook and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. «