Eustace Conway

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Eustace Conway (born Eustace Robinson Conway IV in 1961 in South Carolina) is an American naturalist and the subject of the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. He is the owner of 1000 acre Turtle Island Preserve near Boone, North Carolina.

At the age of 12, Conway lived in the woods for a week. At 17 he moved out of his parents home entirely so that he could live in a tipi in the woods. He has hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and set the world record for crossing the United States on horseback from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Conway, his younger brother Judson, and a friend of theirs left after eating Christmas dinner telling everyone that they could make it to the west coast by Easter. After 103 days they rode into the surf of the Pacific. It was just ten hours before Easter.

Conway also travels to schools and summer camps giving lectures on living in the woods and his views of modern life.

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