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Michael Finkel, Mark Bramhall: The Stranger in the Woods (2017, BooksOnTape) 4 stars

"For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of …

Review of 'The Stranger in the Woods' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

"Thoreau was an amateur" says Christopher Knight, who lived alone in the forests of Maine for 27 years, and I must agree. To remove yourself so thoroughly from society is a strange achievement, and it's more real for all that the world that Knight shunned is so much more like my own than that of Walden. Very well researched and thoughtful book about a true stoic.