Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
- ISBN-10
- 0307591778
- ISBN-13
- 9780307591777
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 394
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-06
- Publisher
- Broadway
- Author
- David Roberts
Description
Traces the extraordinary life of the early 20th-century adventurer, writer and watercolor artist, describing his early years as a child prodigy, his solitary journeys through the American Southwest and his mysterious 1934 disappearance in Navajo country. 60,000 first printing.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife
By Philip L. Fradkin... 27n, 152 politics, 18, 19n, 124, 128–29 Pollock, Joe, 156 Porter, Clayton, 241n61 Posey War, 252n48 Poulton, Donna L., ... Anasazi, 2, 3, 4, 181 Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 45 Rockefeller, Michael, 8 Rockport, 127, 272 index.
-
The Mystery of Everett Ruess
By W. L. RushoThe story of a young artist who walked into the Southwestern desert and vanished, and the legends he left behind—includes his personal correspondence.
-
Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty
By W.L RushoThis search for ultimate beauty and adventure is chronicled in this remarkable collection of letter to friends and family. The collections covers the period from 1930 until he vanished without a trace in 1934.
-
Into the Wild
By Jon KrakauerFour months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.
-
The Big Wander
By Will Hobbs... he was pretty excited about me finding Uncle Clay. Awful surprised to find out he was in jail. And he read me a letter from my mother. It's the first one that's gotten through since she was actually in Guatemala.” “And how's she doing ...
-
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
By Andrea LankfordAnd every two weeks— after theCurry Company withholds money from your Curry Company paycheck to pay rent on your Curry Company tent cabinand then you take what's leftof your Curry Companypaycheck tothe Curry Company store to buy Curry ...
-
On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess
By Everett RuessThis commemorative edition once again makes available the writings that made Everett Ruess a wilderness legend.
-
The Legend of Everett Ruess: Pledge to the Wind
By Robert Louis DemayoThey allowed him to witness-and participate in-ceremonies that today are mostly off-limits to non-Indians. His letters about these experiences, flushed out in this story, show just how unique his time in the southwest was.
-
A Vagabond for Beauty
By W. L. RushoThrough letters, diary excerpts and poems - charting not only his rugged adventures and his exquisite nature writing but his progression as a writer, and into adulthood - and with commentary by W. L. Rusho, A Vagabond for Beauty tells his ...
-
Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
By David Roberts“I never had been to a fare in My life,” she later wrote, “as my Parents would neveralow me or My sisters to visit those places allthough fares was verey comon in England in those days once a yearan the young Men and women go there to ...