The Last American Man (signed)

First Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed on the title page by Elizabeth Gilbert and Eustace Conway. Very scarce signed by Conway. Fine in original two-toned boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.

In The Last American Man, acclaimed journalist and fiction writer Elizabeth Gilbert offers a fresh cultural examination of contemporary American male identity and the uniquely American desire to return to the wilderness. "Explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of seventeen to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last twenty years he has lived, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals, . . . and living off the land." Octavo. 271 pp.