Or Eighteen Years in the Wilderness by Mason A. Walton is a perfect book for those who enjoy Wild Animals I Have Known, Walden or any nature books.

It’s pretty self-explanatory as Mason writes in his intro that he went out to a log cabin in the country for stress relief from city life much like Thoreau. The chapters are primarly separated by each animal friend like Bismack the Red Squirrel, Satan the Racoon and so on.

He describes his interactions with these animals, hwo some seemed to start to recognize him and vice versa, interspersed with musings on animal behavior and intelligence. His foremost point is that animals are intelligent and if you doubt his word, live in the woods for eighteen years and you wil observe the same thing.

It’s well done, he has a very home down, folksy tone. Like a nature dpcumentary, but a book. So if you enjoy the above books, you’ll like this.