THE LAST AMERICAN MAN
Elizabeth Gilbert, . . Viking, $24.95 (271pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03086-6
"By the time Eustace Conway was seven years old he could throw a knife accurately enough to nail a chipmunk to a tree." Such behavior might qualify Eustace as a potential Columbine-style triggerman, but in Gilbert's startling and fascinating account of his life, he becomes a great American countercultural hero. At 17, Conway "headed into the mountains... and dressed in the skins of animals he had hunted and eaten." By his late 30s, Eustace owned "a thousand acres of pristine wilderness" and lived in a teepee in the woods full-time. He is, as Gilbert (
Reviewed on: 04/22/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 288 pages - 978-1-4088-0687-6
Paperback - 288 pages - 978-0-14-200283-4