The Landscape

Michael Finkel and the North Pond Hermit


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In this episode of Go West, Young Podcast, a conversation with author Michael Finkel about Christopher Knight, the “North Pond Hermit” who lived for 27 years alone in the Maine woods. Michael’s book is The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the the Last True Hermit.

Michael’s book is based on this GQ article from 2014


* This week in Western history: The Black Sunday dust storm of 1935


Producer & host: Aaron Weiss
Music: Purple Planet
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