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100 1 Gilbert, Elizabeth,|d1969-
245 14 The last American man|h[ebook] /|cElizabeth Gilbert
264 1 New York :|bPenguin Books,|c2003
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520 [In this book, the author] explores the true story of
Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at
the age of seventeen to move into the Appalachian
Mountains, where for the last twenty years he has lived,
making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he
trapped, and living off the land. A charismatic and
romantic figure, both brilliant and tormented, brave and
contradictory, restless and ambitious, Conway has always
seen himself as a "Man of Destiny" whose goal is to
convince modern Americans to give up their materialistic
lifestyles and return with him back to nature. [The
author] tells of Eustace's crusade and his extraordinary
wilderness adventures, including his 2000-mile hike down
the Appalachian Trail (surviving almost exclusively on
what he could hunt and gather along the way) and his
legendary journey across America on horseback." To [her],
Eustace Conway's mythical character challenges all our
assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in
America; he is a symbol of what we feel our men should be,
but rarely are. From his example, she delivers a look at
an archetypal American man and - from the point of view of
a contemporary woman - refracts masculine American
identity in all its conflicting elements of inventiveness,
narcissism, isolation, and intimacy.-Dust jacket
588 0 Print version record
600 10 Conway, Eustace,|d1961-
650 0 Outdoor life|zUnited States
650 0 Wilderness survival|zUnited States
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650 7 Survie en forĂȘt.|2rasuqam
650 7 Style de vie alternatif.|2rasuqam
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