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Finding Everett Ruess

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307591778
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Finding Everett Ruess written by David Roberts and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following. “Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—Outside Wandering alone with burros and pack horses through California and the Southwest for five years in the early 1930s, on voyages lasting as long as ten months, Ruess became friends with photographers Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange, swapped prints with Ansel Adams, took part in a Hopi ceremony, learned to speak Navajo, and was among the first "outsiders" to venture deeply into what was then (and to some extent still is) largely a little-known wilderness. When he vanished without a trace in November 1934, Ruess left behind thousands of pages of journals, letters, and poems, as well as more than a hundred watercolor paintings and blockprint engravings. Everett Ruess is hailed as a paragon of solo exploration, while the mystery of his death remains one of the greatest riddles in the annals of American adventure. David Roberts began probing the life and death of Everett Ruess for National Geographic Adventure magazine in 1998. Finding Everett Ruess is the result of his personal journeys into the remote areas explored by Ruess, his interviews with oldtimers who encountered the young vagabond and with Ruess’s closest living relatives, and his deep immersion in Ruess’s writings and artwork. More than seventy-five years after his vanishing, Ruess stirs the kinds of passion and speculation accorded such legendary doomed American adventurers as Into the Wild’s Chris McCandless and Amelia Earhart.

Everett Ruess

Author : W. L. Rusho
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780879052102
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Everett Ruess written by W. L. Rusho and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 1983 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everett Ruess, the young poet and artist who disappeared into the desert canyonlands of Utah in 1934, has become widely known posthumously as the spokesman for the spirit of the high desert. Many have been inspired by his intense search for adventure, leaving behind the amenities of a comfortable life. His search for ultimate beauty and oneness with nature is chronicled in this remarkable collection of letters to family and friends.

Everett Ruess

Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520265424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Everett Ruess written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the story of Everett Ruess, a naturalist and artist of the early twentieth century whose disappearance sparked a myth of a romantic desert wanderer.

The Mystery of Everett Ruess

Author : W. L. Rusho
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423617126
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Everett Ruess written by W. L. Rusho and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young artist who walked into the Southwestern desert and vanished, and the legends he left behind—includes his personal correspondence. The story of Everett Ruess, who set out into the desert with two burros in 1934 and disappeared into the wilderness of Southern Utah, has for decades been one of the most intriguing mysteries of western lore. A Californian off on an adventure at the age of twenty, he loved poetry, nature, art, and beauty. His family had tracked his wanderings for four years as he explored Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico—and then Everett disappeared without a trace. Then, in 2008, an old Navajo Indian came forward with information that he had witnessed a murder in 1934, probably that of young Ruess. In addition to extensive letters by Ruess himself providing an insight into his mind and heart, this book tells how the bones were recovered and multiple DNA tests were done amid much suspense and speculation, and how a family was affected by the ultimate results. Includes a new epilogue

Into the Wild

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476863
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

A Vagabond for Beauty

Author : W L Rusho
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529376114
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book A Vagabond for Beauty written by W L Rusho and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCED BY PAUL KINGSNORTH, Booker-shortlisted author of The Wake 'I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.' Artist and wanderer Everett Ruess left home at the age of sixteen to immerse himself in the harsh desert landscapes of the American Southwest. With only his donkeys for company, driven by an insatiable longing for beauty and experience, he ventured ever further from civilisation and into the wilderness of Navajo country. In 1934, at the age of twenty, he vanished without trace in Utah, a disappearance that remains unsolved to this day. Through 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 remarkable story.

On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess

Author : Everett Ruess
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780879058258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess written by Everett Ruess and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As to when I shall visit civilization again, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me?"--From Everett's last letter to his brother Waldo before he disappeared, written November 11, 1934.Everett Ruess developed a profound connection with the arid wilderness of the Southwest. Finding inspiration in this land of harsh beauty, Everett wandered, painted, and wrote; his letters revealed an intelligent and gifted young man who was most at home in desert canyons and rugged mountains. In one of his poems, "The Artist's Song of Inspiration," Everett wrote: "Nature has shown me what to strive for, and I shall not be slow to follow her." Everett did follow Nature, and in November of 1934, at the age of twenty, Everett followed her into the Escalante region of southern Utah and never returned.On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess was teh first collection of Everett's writings and was originally published in 1940, six years after his disappearance. This commemorative edition once again makes available the writings that made Everett Ruess a wilderness legend.

The Big Wander

Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439136751
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Big Wander written by Will Hobbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Summer To Remember Fourteen-year-old Clay Lancaster has been dreaming for years of the adventure he calls The Big Wander -- a summer in the Southwest with his older brother, Mike, searching for their uncle Clay. When Mike decides to return home to Seattle and the girlfriend he left behind, Clay chooses to stay on and continue the search on his own. Following a tip about his uncle, he heads out into the most remote canyons of the Navajo reservation, with only a burro and a dog named Curly for company. Clay loses his heart to the vast, rugged land -- and to an adventurous girl with a long, dark braid -- but finds his uncle in big trouble. Can Clay pull off a risky plan to save his uncle -- and the wild horses Uncle Clay has put his own life in jeopardy to protect?

The Legend of Everett Ruess

Author : Robert Louis DeMayo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736598450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Everett Ruess written by Robert Louis DeMayo and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess follows the adventures of Everett Ruess from his appearance in the southwest in 1931 when he was only seventeen, until his disappearance in 1934, shortly before he turned 21. Theories abound as to what may have happened to him: drowned crossing the Colorado River, bit by a rattlesnake, fell off a cliff while trying to reach a ruin, killed by an Indian who thought he was a witch, shot by a rancher, etc. There are others that believe he didn't die at all, and that the Navajo or the Hopi are hiding him out. In this compelling narrative, Robert Louis DeMayo explores what might have happened.

Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts

Author : Donna L. Poulton
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 142360184X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts written by Donna L. Poulton and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-05-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly illustrated and exhaustively researched and documented, Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts weaves a sweeping tapestry of artists' attempts to capture the majesty, rare beauty, and raw danger of Utah's frontier West. A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF ARTISTS WHO PAINTED SOUTHERN UTAH, INCLUDING: Solomon Nunes Carvalho Frederick S. Dellenbaugh John Heber Stansfield William Keith Samuel Coleman Thomas Moran Minerva B. K. Teichert Maynard Dixon LeConte Stewart J. Roman Andrus Birger Sandzén Everett Ruess Georgia O'Keeffe Max Ernst Alfred Lambourne Henry L. A. Culmer Donald Beauregard

The Cold Case Chronicles

Author : Silvia Pettem
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781493044559
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Cold Case Chronicles written by Silvia Pettem and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLD CASE CHRONICLES tells the stories of victims -- some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are mysterious in their own ways. The cases in this nonfiction narrative date from 1910 through the 1950s and include evolutions in forensics, as well as historical context in order to view the men, women and children through the lens of time.

Wilson and Miss Lovely

Author : John Stadler
Publisher : Robin Corey Books
ISBN 13 : 0385387008
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Wilson and Miss Lovely written by John Stadler and published by Robin Corey Books. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming school story with a twist—new from John Stadler! Wilson had just finished his first week of school and could not wait for the next one to begin. He was very fond of his new teacher, Miss Lovely. But something was wrong that day—very wrong. There were no school buses, the school itself was empty, and something strange was approaching. Undeterred and ever-hopeful that he would see Miss Lovely soon, Wilson went through his normal school day alone—he did his math lesson alone, his science lesson alone, sent himself to the principal’s office when he was naughty, and more, but still . . . something was approaching. Stadler skillfully uses gatefold flaps to keep the suspense mounting until we find out just who—or what—was approaching. Readers will love following Wilson and his day at school right out of a Twilight Zone episode in this funny, sweet, and sometimes scary story.

Mormon Country

Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293052
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Mormon Country written by Wallace Stegner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their ?lovely Deseret,? a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed to the often prodigal individualism of the West, Mormons lived in closely knit ?øsome say ironclad ?øcommunities. The story of Mormon country is one of self-sacrifice and labor spent in the search for an ideal in the most forbidding territory of the American West. Richard W. Etulain provides a new introduction to this edition.

To the Foot of the Rainbow

Author : Clyde Kluckhohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Foot of the Rainbow written by Clyde Kluckhohn and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Will to Climb

Author : Ed Viesturs
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307720438
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Will to Climb written by Ed Viesturs and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to climb the world’s tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made—or attempted—the ascent. “Viesturs and Roberts have written an exhaustively researched and wonderfully compelling history of the most fascinating and dangerous of the Himalayan giants.”—David Breashers, veteran mountaineer and documentary filmmaker, director of IMAX film Everest As a high school student, Ed Viesturs read and was captivated by the French climber Maurice Herzog’s famous and grisly account of the first ascent of Annapurna in 1950. When he began his own campaign to climb the world’s fourteen highest peaks in the late 1980s, Viesturs looked forward with trepidation to undertaking Annapurna himself. Two failures to summit in 2000 and 2002 made Annapurna his nemesis. His successful 2005 ascent was the triumphant capstone of his climbing quest. In The Will to Climb Viesturs and co-author David Roberts bring the extraordinary challenges of Annapurna to vivid life through edge-of-your-seat accounts of the greatest climbs in the mountain’s history, and of his own failed attempts and eventual success. In the process Viesturs ponders what Annapurna reveals about some of our most fundamental moral and spiritual questions—questions, he believes, that we need to answer to lead our lives well.

Death on the Barrens

Author : George James Grinnell
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556438826
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Death on the Barrens written by George James Grinnell and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book takes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy, redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell was one of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led by experienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt. Poorly planned and executed, the journey seemed doomed from the start. Ignoring the approaching winter, the men became entranced with the peace and beauty of the arctic in autumn. As winter closed in, they suddenly faced numbing cold and dwindling food. When the crew is swept over a waterfall, Moffatt is killed and most of the gear and emergency food supplies destroyed. Confronting freezing conditions and near starvation, the remaining crew struggled to make it back to civilization. For Grinnell, the three-month expedition was both a rite of passage and a spiritual odyssey. In the Barrens, he lost his sense of identity and what he had been conditioned to think about society and himself. Forever changed by the experience, he unsparingly describes how the expedition influenced his adult life and what powerful insights he was able to glean from this life-altering experience.

Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess

Author : Everett Ruess
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780879058630
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess written by Everett Ruess and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven to the beauties of Nature, yet both enraptured and tormented by what he saw and felt, young Everett Ruess wandered alone through the High Sierras and across the scenic deserts of the Four Corners regions. He made forays during the warm seasons of the year beginning in 1930. Then in late 1934, not yet twenty-one years old, he mysteriously disappeared from the Escalante Canyon area of Southern Utah, and was never seen again. While most of his lyrically written, essay-type letters are in print, his only existing journals--for 1932 and 1934--have never before been published. These journals were his companions, a place where he confided his joys, his regrets, his complaints, and his aspirations, as well as some exciting adventures. They also provide us with insight into Everett's deeper feelings toward the complexity, the frustrations, as well as the beauty of life -- Back cover.