Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island

Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland IslandWritten by Will Harlan, Southeast Director and Senior Scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness. Shes had three husbands and many lovers, one of whom she shot and killed in self defense. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a

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color or write down their thoughts and expand their “feelings vocabulary”

and compassion—a clarion call to continue to embrace

with an introductory essay by Terry Tempest Williams

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embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside

Seeking to understand why we immerse ourselves in the domestic and immediate

Public sentiment quickly soured

the far ends of the Arctic

Untamed is the story of an American original standing her ground and fighting for what she believes in