The Last Romantic

He called his home Turtle Island—after an Indian legend about the Creation of the World, according to which a great turtle carries the Earth on its back…

"The Last Romantic" is a story about an American eccentric who for as long as twenty years lived in the Appalachians and survived in the wild—raising his own food, striking fire from two sticks, and wearing the skins of animals he hunted himself. Elizabeth Gilbert tells of a modern romantic who decided to leave his familiar, convenient—but unreal—life in the city, to build his own world in the forest and call people to follow him. © Storyside