Author Jim Motavalli takes us back 100 years to talk about the life and times of a man intent on proving he could survive naked in nature. Motavalli chats with host Bruce Gellerman about his new book “Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery.”
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