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*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Could you leave behind all that you
know and live in solitude for three decades? This is the
extraordinary story of the last true hermit - Christopher Knight.
'This was a breath-taking book to read and many weeks later I am
still thinking about the implications for our society and - by
extension - for my own life' Sebastian Junger, bestselling author
of The Perfect Storm 'A wry meditation on one man's attempt to
escape life's distractions and look inwards, to find meaning not by
doing, but by being' Martin Sixsmith, bestselling author of
Philomena and Ayesha's Gift 'Not all heroes wear capes. My latest
one is a man called Christopher Knight - a silent idol for anyone
who has felt the urge to just sack it all off and live the life of
a hermit' Lucy Mangan, Stylist 'An extraordinary story about
solitude, community, identity and freedom' Guardian 'A meditation
on solitude, wildness and survival. It is also, unexpectedly, a
tribute to the joys of reading' The Wall Street Journal In 1986,
twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts,
drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not speak
to another human being until three decades later when he was
arrested for stealing food. Christopher survived by his wits and
courage, developing ingenious ways to store food and water in order
to avoid freezing to death in his tent during the harsh Maine
winters. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothes, reading
material and other provisions, taking only what he needed. In the
process, he unwittingly terrified a community unable to solve the
mysterious burglaries. Myths abounded amongst the locals eager to
find this legendary hermit. Based on extensive interviews with
Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded
life and the challenges he faced returning to the world. The
Stranger in the Woods is a riveting story of survival that asks
fundamental questions about solitude and what makes for a good
life. Above all, this is a deeply moving portrait of a man
determined to live life his own way.
The true story of the world’s most prolific art thief, who
accumulated a collection worth over $1.4 billion.
AÂ spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from
the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Wood. For
centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all
over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as
the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than 200
heists over nearly ten years - in museums and cathedrals all over
Europe - Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his
lookout, stole more than 300 objects, until it all fell apart in
spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel
brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world.
Unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his
treasures in his home, where he could admire them to his heart’s
content. Possessed of a remarkable appreciation for art and an
innate ability to assess practically any security system,
Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtakingly number of
audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing
disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading
Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop - until one
final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a
riveting story of art, crime, and an insatiable hunger to possess
beauty at any cost. As a real page-turner that seems almost
unbelievable in its twists and turns, The Art Thief explores
the true story of the art collector who went to extreme lengths to
expand his personal collection – and the thrill of the heist that
kept him going. Â
Advanced Tools and Models to Improve River Basin Management in
Europe in the Context of Climate Change - AquaTerra has developed
from an integrated project of the 6th EU RTD Framework Programme
that aims to provide the scientific basis for an improved river
basin management through a better understanding of the
river-sediment-soil-groundwater system as a whole, by integrating
both natural and socio-economics aspects at different temporal and
spatial scales. This book aims: * to provide better understanding
of the river-sediment-soil-groundwater system at various temporal
and spatial scales * to relate expected climate alterations to
changes in deposition, mobility and distribution of pollutants in
European river basins. * to provide the scientific basis for
improved river basin management * to introduce novel tools for
water and soil quality monitoring * to show the necessity of
integrated modelling frameworks for impact evaluation of pollution
as well as climate and land-use changes for definition of long-term
management schemes The work illustrates the dynamic behavior of the
pathway of pollutants in soils, groundwater, surface water and
sediments. It highlights the fundamental importance of integrating
knowledge from sereral combineddisciplines on various environmental
compartments in order to understand the large number of processes
that govern pollutant input, transport and turnover. Results shows
that a significant step forward has been made in the development
new analytical methods and of process-based numerical models that
are capable of making predictions of likely trends and
environmental changes to be expected in the near or distant future
at the basin-scale. These models can be used e.g. to generate
hydrologic scenarios based on climate models and to simulate
pollutant distribution and turnover rates from decades to
millennia.
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True Story (Paperback)
Michael Finkel
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Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist
publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character
for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about
how this brilliant, high achieving journalist found himself at that
point in his life. But in parallel it's also about Christian Longo,
a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and three
children. After the deaths, Longo fled to Mexico, where he passed
himself off as Michael Finkel, New York Times journalist. These two
weird stories come together as Finkel in turn becomes fascinated
(perhaps obsessed) with Longo the accused murderer, who while in
prison and during his trial would talk only to Finkel. Who is using
whom...?
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