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    <body><![CDATA[After devouring Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, I ran to the bookstore and picked up this fascinating biography of Eustis Conway, who may or may not be the Last American Man, but he IS the last person you would want to live with or work for. He is in his own idealistic world that shuts out others and has...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18471293">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Eustace Conway could teach us all a thing or two about how we should live on this earth. Unfortunately, all Elizabeth Gilbert wants to teach us is about his father issues and his relationships with women. There is almost no wilderness ethic to be had; the book reads like the diary of a 12-year-old g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12857199">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this in the car, again. Found it to be well-written and interesting, about a real man, Eustice Conway, whose goal in life is to live as naturally as possible, meaning on his land, in a teepee, growing his own food, etc. He also wants everyone else to live this way.<br/><br/>I didn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43246268">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert has an ideal voice for this subject... though she obviously respects her subject, she displays the necessary healthy amount of skepticism needed to make palatable the biography a die-hard naturalist who feels he is destined to educate Americans about the evils of consumer culture. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35830123">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely love stories about people who decide to live an American existence that most would be appalled by. This book is one of the best of that subject. It is the true story of Eustace Conway, a man who left suburbia behind in pursuit of a more honest, nature-bound existence.<br/>I enjoyed the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53974549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In the Epilogue, Gilbert says &quot;The history of Eustace Conway is the history of man's progress on the North American continent,&quot; and she has done her homework charting the path of the American male hero from Natty Bumppo to Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett to show parallels in Eustace Conway'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48275317">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had high hopes for this as it seemed an interesting subject (the life and times of a guy who lives quite literally off the land - a &quot;pioneer&quot; if you will.) I have no idea what the point of this book was supposed to be - it is disorganized and strange, the author switching tones, style, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40045348">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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