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Finding Everett Ruess is the definitive biography of the musician, article writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold single explorations of the North american West and incomprehensible disappearance in the Utah desert at get older 20 have received him a huge and devoted cult following. A lot more than 75 years after his vanishing, Ruess stirs the varieties of interest and speculation accorded such famous doomed American adventurers as Into the Wild's Chris McCandless and Amelia Earhart. "I have not sick and tired of the wilderness; alternatively I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I favor the saddle to the street car and the legend sprinkled sky to a roof top, the obscure and difficult path, leading into the undiscovered, to any paved highway, and the profound serenity of the wild to the discontent bred by cities." So Everett Ruess composed in his previous notice to his sibling. And early, in a valedictory poem, "Say that I starved; i was lost and weary; I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, unwell with strange diseases; Unhappy and moist and wintry . . . but i kept my wish!" Wandering by themselves with burros and pack horses through California and the Southwest for five years in the early 1930s, on voyages enduring so long as ten calendar months, Ruess also became friends with photographers Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange, swapped designs with Ansel Adams, got part in a Hopi ceremony, learned to speak Navajo, and was one of the primary "outsiders" to endeavor deeply into that which was then (also to some extent is still) basically a little-known wilderness. When he vanished without a trace in November 1934, Ruess left behind thousands of pages of journals, words, and poems, as well as more than a hundred watercolor paintings and blockprint engravings. A Ruess mystique, initiated by his parents but soon enlarged by readers and critics who, struck by his amazing connection to the wild, likened him to a fledgling John Muir. Today, the Ruess cult has more adherents-and more passionate ones-than at any time in the seven-plus ages since his disappearance. Right now, Everett Ruess is hailed as a paragon of single exploration, as the unknown of his death remains one of the greatest riddles in the history of American excursion. David Roberts started probing the life span and death of Everett Ruess for Country wide Geographic Adventure journal in 1998. Finding Everett Ruess is the consequence of his personal journeys into the remote control areas explored by Ruess, his interviews with oldtimers who experienced the young vagabond and with Ruess's closest living family members, and his profound immersion in Ruess's writings and artwork. It is an epic narrative of a driven and acutely perceptive young adventurer's expeditions into the wildernesses of scenery and self-discovery, as well as an absorbing investigation of the carrying on unknown of his disappearance. Within this definitive bank account of Ruess's outstanding life and the enigma of his vanishing, David Roberts eloquently catches Ruess's tragic genius and ongoing fascination.
