Finding Everett Ruess [electronic resource] : the life and unsolved disappearance of a legendary wilderness explorer / David Roberts.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307591784 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307591786 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 394 p. : ill., maps.)
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Pt. 1: The desire to live. "I have given the wind my pledge" ; "I have been one who loved the wilderness" ; "The crazy man is in solitude again" ; "I go to make my destiny" ; "I have seen more beauty than I can bear" -- Pt. 2: Say that I kept my dream. Nemo ; Desert trails ; Cult and conundrum ; "No least desire for fame" -- Pt. 3: What Aneth saw. Jackass Bar ; Comb Ridge -- Epilogue: Happy journeys. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Ruess, Everett, b. 1914. Poets, American > 20th century > Biography. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |