I was thinking recently about my obsession with The Hatchet by Gary Paulson as a kid, and my obsession with Cheryl Strayed’s Wild as a teenager. It’s been a long time since I read a similar narrative—I read Robinson Crusoe recently, but Defoe obviously wasn’t too interested in a deeper look at what that kind of isolation does psychologically. What other books follow the same formula of getting lost purposefully or accidentally in nature, and the psychological consequences/benefits that result from it?
by halestorm_7