Donald Kueck was a Mojave Desert hermit who had a way with bobcats, snakes, ravens and squirrels. He was also paranoid, doped up and lethal — “Dr. Dolittle with an assault rifle,” as author Deanne ...

Little is known about the life of Isaac the Syrian, the 7th century hermit and saint born in what is now Qatar. The spiritual writings he left behind, however, are of such beauty and power that he is ...

“Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History” by Deanne Stillman Deputy sheriff Stephen Sorensen was on his day off when he drove onto ...

The Wild West is not dead – it lives on in the vast Mojave desert north of Los Angeles. This modern wild west is peopled by ranchers, cowboys, bikers, squatters, felons and a host of iconoclasts who ...

Stillman (Twentynine Palms) uses a face-off in 2003 between a brilliant, paranoid, drug-abusing hermit and a former surfer–turned–law enforcement officer, and the subsequent seven-day manhunt, to ...

After a year of practicing social distancing and indoor isolation, “A Shape of Things to Come” offers a sensory escape to the desert with an urgent message from the vestiges of the American wilderness ...

A castaway dubbed the ‘naked hermit’ who lived on a desert island for 30 years has been forced to live in civilisation. Masafumi Nagasaki has spent the last three decades living on the deserted island ...