He sees Knight as someone who has escaped the noise of modern life and wants to learn more about him. The arrest of a hermit makes national news and attracts the attention of Finkel.
A game warden who was also a former Marine Sergeant used Homeland Security surveillance equipment in his spare time to help catch Knight. Some people were sympathetic to him because he only stole inexpensive things from vacation homes while avoiding doing damage to them others were scared by his actions. He had been stealing food and other items over the course of twenty years. In 2013, Christopher Knight was arrested for stealing from a camp facility. In this expanded version of his 2014 GQ article “The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit,” he shares more information with readers to tell a fuller story. The author learned about him through interviews, letters, and research. He was first discovered when he broke into someone’s cabin and stole supplies. The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel is a nonfiction book about a man who lived alone for 27 years in the Maine wilderness. (Mar.1-Page Summary of The Stranger In The Woods Overall Summary The book doesn’t penetrate the mystery of Knight’s renunciation, but the questions it raises remain deeply compelling. Yet even as Finkel immerses himself in Knight’s life-researching hermits, consulting psychologists, even camping at Knight’s hideaway-his subject’s motivations remain obscure, leaving the book somehow incomplete. A fellow outdoorsman, Finkel places Knight in the long tradition of hermits, a category that has been admired and distrusted over the centuries. Despite frequent rebuffs, enough of a relationship developed for Finkel to broadly outline Knight’s wilderness solitude. Drawn by the details that followed Knight’s arrest, Finkel reached out to him through letters and visits. Finally apprehended during one of his raids, the “Hermit of North Pond” battled depression and contemplated suicide as he was forced to rejoin society. To survive, Knight relentlessly pilfered supplies from vacation houses around his campsite, infuriating and terrifying homeowners and baffling a generation of cops. In this fascinating account of Knight’s renunciation of humanity, Finkel ( True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa) struggles to comprehend the impulses that led Knight to court death by hypothermia even though his family home was less than an hour’s drive away. Nearly three decades passed before he reappeared and revealed he’d spent most of that time camping in the woods of central Maine. On a summer morning in 1986, 20-year-old Christopher Knight didn’t show up for his job installing alarm systems in Waltham, Mass.
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