Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier FakeryDa Capo Press, 2007 - 352 pages Joseph Knowles was a forty-five-year-old part-time painter, ex-Navy man, friend of the Sioux, and onetime hunting guide who stepped-nearly naked-into the woods to live off the land and his own devices. From 1913 to 1916, Knowles's dispatches to the world-alternating accounts of bear clubbing and quiet contemplation, written in charcoal on pieces of birch bark-set off major newspaper wars, exploiting readers' fears of modernization. Did Knowles really survive for months at a time in the untamed wilderness without any aid, and why is the answer still so vital to the American psyche? Part adventure story, part cultural investigation, Naked in the Woods reveals a whole new dimension of our natural history. |
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... described to the newspaper , he is much occupied with keeping warm , alternately rest- ing against a tree and pacing back and forth . He admits to “ jum- bled thoughts . " The rain keeps falling until what he guesses to be three A.M. ...
... described to the newspaper , he is much occupied with keeping warm , alternately rest- ing against a tree and pacing back and forth . He admits to “ jum- bled thoughts . " The rain keeps falling until what he guesses to be three A.M. ...
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... described to the film mogul , it stars Knowles as himself " The Nature Man ' and conqueror of the wilderness ” —along with a big cast of " wild animals , birds , reptiles and fishes . " The story is a hoot . It starts out with Knowles ...
... described to the film mogul , it stars Knowles as himself " The Nature Man ' and conqueror of the wilderness ” —along with a big cast of " wild animals , birds , reptiles and fishes . " The story is a hoot . It starts out with Knowles ...
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... described his adventures . Knowles probably did not have the discipline or the organiza- tional skills to put together a nature school on his own . He pre- ferred to be an actor in a play that was staged for him . Without any immediate ...
... described his adventures . Knowles probably did not have the discipline or the organiza- tional skills to put together a nature school on his own . He pre- ferred to be an actor in a play that was staged for him . Without any immediate ...
Contents
The Makings of a Nature Man | 25 |
The Toast of Boston | 49 |
Faking It in the Fading Frontier | 85 |
Copyright | |
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