{"product_id":"finding-everett-ruess-isbn-9780307591777","title":"Finding Everett Ruess","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWandering 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverett 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 \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e magazine in 1998. \u003ci\u003eFinding Everett Ruess\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInto the Wild’s \u003c\/i\u003eChris McCandless and Amelia Earhart.“An irresistible read . . . a remarkable book . . . Roberts makes the mystery of Ruess’s evanescent existence more compelling than ever.”\u003cb\u003e—Jon Krakauer, from the foreword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everett Lives! If not in a desert canyon, then at least among the pages where David Roberts brings the young man’s life and legend all together: his writings and art, his kinship with nature, his love for adventure and beauty, and the yet-evolving mystery of his disappearance. Count me one among many inspired by a young adventurer who lived in beauty and left us too soon. May we never stop wandering.”\u003cb\u003e—Aron Ralston, author of \u003ci\u003eBetween a Rock and a Hard Place\u003c\/i\u003e and subject of the film \u003ci\u003e127 Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anyone intrigued by the Ruess phenomenon will be enthralled with Roberts’ review of the young man’s biography, the stature of his artistic achievements and unrealized potential, and efforts to find and eventually memorialize him. . . . This is sure to appeal to fans of wilderness wanderers.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Absorbing . . . [a] readable look at a complex personality in wilderness exploration.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Roberts deftly . . . captures the complexity of his subject.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of more than twenty books on mountaineering, adventure, and history, including \u003ci\u003eNo Shortcuts to the Top, K2\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Climb, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich he co-wrote with Ed Viesturs and a memoir \u003ci\u003eOn The Ridge Between Life and Death\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written for \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e. David Roberts passed away in 2021.","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303356715237,"sku":"NP9780307591777","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307591777.jpg?v=1767726891","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/finding-everett-ruess-isbn-9780307591777","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}