The Stranger in the Woods_ The - Michael Finkel

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright © 2017 by Michael Finkel All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Limited, Toronto. www.aaknopf.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. A portion of this work was adapted from “The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit,” originally published in GQ magazine (August 4, 2014). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Finkel, Michael, author. Title: The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit / by Michael Finkel. Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. | “This is a Borzoi book”—Title page verso. Identifiers: LCCN 2016029910 (print) | LCCN 2016037679 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101875681 | ISBN 9781101875698 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524711092 (open market) Subjects: LCSH: Knight, Christopher Thomas, 1965– | Hermits—Maine—Smithfield Region—Biography. | Recluses—Maine— Smithfield Region—Biography. | Thieves—Maine—Smithfield Region—Biography. | Smithfield Region (Me.)—Biography. | Survival —Case studies. | Solitude—Case studies. Classification: LCC CT9991.K65 F56 2017 (print) | LCC CT991.K65 (ebook) | DDC 974.1/22043092 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029910 Ebook ISBN 9781101875698 Cover photograph by Alan Sirulnikoff / Millennium Images, U.K. Cover design by Kelly Blair Maps by Kristine Ellingsen v4.1 ep
Contents Cover Also by Michael Finkel Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Map: The Ponds Map: The Camp Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23
Page 2: Also by Michael Finkel True Story:
Page 7 and 8: In memory of Eileen Myrna Baker Fin
Page 13 and 14: 1 The trees are mostly skinny where
Page 15 and 16: 2 Terry Hughes’s wife nudges him
Page 17 and 18: eyes, and trains the .357 square in
Page 19 and 20: down, hands still locked behind his
Page 21 and 22: truth. Anything else would be wasti
Page 23 and 24: “I took no medications and never
Page 25 and 26: Or them. Nobody knew. Because of th
Page 27 and 28: North Pond hermit, it turns out, wa
Page 29 and 30: 7 I learned about Christopher Knigh
Page 31 and 32: 8 A white envelope arrived in my ma
Page 33 and 34: against the rules of journalism. I
Page 35 and 36: 9 Augusta, Maine, is picturesque bu
Page 37 and 38: East accent. I plowed awkwardly on.
Page 39 and 40: 10 Knight lived in the same campsit
Page 41 and 42: Knight, matching him step for step.
Page 43 and 44: He’d spread a carpet over the mag
Page 45 and 46: It was the kind of total quiet that
Page 47 and 48: to the nature of the electromagneti
Page 49 and 50: something. Chris was smart and frie
Page 51 and 52: 13 But why? Why would a twenty-year
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including Charles Darwin, Thomas Ed
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14 Knight actually did have a plan.
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the sorts of places where it’s ne
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their canoe has been borrowed and r
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16 Knight lived in the dirt but was
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he was famished for words, he’d s
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Knight had a strong distaste for bi
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Knight’s camp. He began observing
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18 The only book Knight didn’t st
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my winter toilet. Do my business. T
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pen name. “Human society has been
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do telethons? I hate Jerry Lewis.
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fed her, but with Knight she had no
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21 A thousand poets sing of solitud
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“psychologically completely out o
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22 Snow melted, flowers bloomed, in
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changes is where the brain is funct
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His thieving raids became considera
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to sing, with his food supplies nea
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inherited from her mother, and a co
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25 A side door to the jail swings o
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Jail, he’s realized, might not be
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26 Chris’s oldest brother, Daniel
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That note, thirty-four words long,
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the bright side. The sun will come
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28 A mile down the road, I pull ove
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It’s now just a spot in the woods
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For insight into Knight: Matt Hongo
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Annette Schipf Chris Anderson David
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David and Louise Proulx, whose tiny
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A Note About the Author Michael Fin
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