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    Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
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    Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

    Written by David Roberts

    Narrated by Arthur Morey

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    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 20 have earned him a large and devoted cult following.

    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 75 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9780307941381
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    Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
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    David Roberts

    David Roberts (1943–2021) was the author of dozens of books on mountaineering, adventure, and the history of the American Southwest. His essays and articles have appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. 

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      Fascinating portrait of the young adventurer and.wanderer. the author was very detail-oriented. I appreciated the inclusion of Everett's writing, poems, and letters. I believe it gave a voice and a face to this young man . The story drags a bit in places but is overall an excellent telling of this enduring mystery.