Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years
This story... doesn't really strike me as that worthy of contemplating for too long.  Really, how is this guy really particularly different from someone who is basically just homeless?  I mean, instead of living on the outskirts of summer resort towns in Maine, he could be homeless living on the outskirts of Bayonne, New Jersey, sifting through trash or breaking into 7-11s at night.  The whole "into the woods" thing is sort of almost beside the point here.  The guy didn't actually live as some sort of pre-Columbian hunter-gatherer.  He was just basically a homeless guy who robbed houses.  I'm not sure why anyone thinks we can learn something from him... other than, perhaps, how to break into houses.