1. Eustace Robinson Conway IV was born on September 15,1961 and is an American naturalist and the subject of the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert.
10 Facts About Eustace Conway
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Eustace Conway has been the subject of Adventures in the Simple Life by Sarah Vowell on the weekly radio show This American Life with Ira Glass.
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Eustace Conway is the owner of the 1,000-acre Turtle Island Preserve in Boone, North Carolina.
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Eustace Conway was a featured personality on the History channel show Mountain Men.
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At age 17, Conway left home so that he could live in a tipi in the woods.
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Eustace Conway has hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and claims to have set the world record of 103 days for crossing the United States on horseback from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Eustace Conway is one of four featured characters in the 2012 documentary film Reconvergence, which was directed by Edward Tyndall.
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Eustace Conway appeared in Mountain Men, a reality television series on the History channel.
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In mid-December 2012 Eustace Conway appeared to make progress toward reaching a resolution with the North Carolina Building Code Council.
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However, immediately following this apparent progress with the code council, Eustace Conway was arrested for trespassing on a neighbor's property in a dispute over the property border, continuing the legal challenges to Turtle Island.