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The Last American Man
Eustace Conway
Eustace Conway

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Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and Lewis and Clark. Frontiersmen are a thing of the past. The West is won, the wilderness now choked with concrete, timber and tar, and the pioneers today tread corridors of corporate power.

The Real American Man has become a myth, bar one. Eustace Conway took to the Appalachian Mountains in his teens, living off the land, eating his kill, wearing their skins. But he's no hermit. Conway is the public face of a pioneering spirit, building his wilderness and his business on Utopia, Turtle Island, with hard work and hard cash.

He says he's the last American man, a self-reliant rebel, 19th century spirit revived in the 21st. Legions of lost city boys and lusting women flee to his mountain refuge for salvation, and run home again, fast.
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Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "The Last American Man"

Eustace Conway, the book's subject and founder of the Turtle Island Preserve in North Carolina.

Elizabeth Gilbert, in North America you become a man by leaving community and going into the wilderness. listen
Elizabeth Gilbert, he is full of contradictions, not unlike the forefathers he is emulating. listen
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