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The astonishing tale of of Mark May's survival in the most rugged of Australian bush has been told in Australian author Tom Patterson's new book Missing. In 1972, 18 year old Mark May seemingly had the world at his feet, an intelligent young man with a scholarship to study law. But ten years on he had issues with drug addiction, had fallen foul of the law and opted out of society. He entered remote gorge country in north-western New South Wales, and that is where he lived rough for for 35 years. His family heard from his sporadically, but in 2017 he went quiet. Tom Patterson talks to Kathryn about what unfolded.
