Finding Everett Ruess
Subtitle: the life and unsolved disappearance of a legendary wilderness explorer
By: David Roberts
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780307591760
Subjects: Biography; American Poets
Description: Traces the life of the early twentieth-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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John Krakauer; title: Author's note; title: Prologue; title: Part 1 : The desire to live.; title: "I have given the wind my pledge"; title: "I have been one who loved the wilderness"; title: "The crazy man is in solitude again"; title: "I go to make my destiny"; title: "I have seen more beauty than I can bear"; title: Part 2 : Say that I kept my dream.; title: Nemo; title: Desert trails; title: Cult and conundrum; title: "No least desire for fame"; title: Part 3 : What Aneth saw.; title: Jackass Bar; title: Comb Ridge; title: Epilogue : Happy journeys