You’ve probably never met anyone like Eustace Conway. The 42-year-old real-life hero of Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Last American Man makes his own clothes out of deerskin, lives on a thousand acres in ...

Neither Eustace Conway, nor the things he builds, seem to be made for modern sensibilities. Conway has lived on Turtle Island Preserve, near Boone, for more than 30 years, just as his ancestors had ...

TRIPLETT, N.C. — The way Eustace Conway sees it, there's the natural world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there's the "plastic, imitation" world ...