Subj : Theres just too much noise
To   : Nick Andre
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Jan 06 2024 09:28 am

Hello Nick!

** On Monday 28.03.22 - 20:00, Nick Andre wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> It all basically boils down to what people would like to see
 AA>> discussed!  I'm all for anything related to books, music,
 AA>> computing, farming, living the life of a recluse, etc.  :|

 NA> Books, music and living the recluse-life I could be interested in.

 NA> I'm actually a huge fan of the North Pond Hermit, aka Christopher Knight.
 NA> Reading *that* story was fascinating and left me with feelings of
 NA> jealousy.

That's Stranger In The Woods, by Michael Finkel.

Check out The Hermit of Gully Lake -by- Joan Baxter:

"The world knew him as the Hermit of Gully Lake, a lean and  
bearded elderly man in rags who lived on his own for more than  
half a century in the deep woods wilderness of northern Nova  
Scotia. By the time he disappeared in December 2003, his legend  
had spread across Canada and beyond. According to that legend,  
he had jumped a troop train in the 1940s to avoid going off to  
World War II because he refused to kill. He then spent the rest  
of his days hiding out in a tiny, dark hut in the Cobequid  
Mountains near Gully Lake, enduring extreme hardship and  
isolation and living in fear of capture for desertion."

Also, upcoming in May 2024:

The Way of the Hermit -by- Ken Smith.

"From his working-class origins in Derbyshire, Ken always  
sensed that there was more ot life than an empty nine to five.  
Then one day in 1974, an attack from a group of drunken men  
left him for dead. Determined to change his prospects, Ken quit  
his job and spent his formative years traveling in the Yukon.  
It was here, in the vast wilderness of northwestern Canada,  
that he honed his survival skills and grew closer to nature.  
Returning to Britain, he continued his nomadic lifestyle,  
wandering north and living in huts until he finally reached  
Loch Treig. Ken decided to lay his roots amongst the dense  
woodland and Highland air, and has lived there ever since."


 NA> Not the break-ins but the life of just one day up and
 NA> vanishing into thin air.

Yeah.. The later installation of security cameras did him in  
though.
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