Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts

Finding Everett Ruess by David Robertsis a 394-page hardcover published by Broadway Books, New York.  Stated first edition of 2011.  The overall condition is very good. Book Summary More than seventy-five years after his vanishing, Everett Ruess stirs the kind of passion and speculation accorded such legendary doomed American adventurers as Amelia Earhart and Into the Wild's Chris McCandless.  Ruess wandered alone with burros and packhorses through California and the Southwest for five years in the early 1930s, on voyages lasting as long as ten months.  He 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 deep into what was then (and to some extent still is) 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.  A Ruess mystique began to build, initiated by his parents but soon enlarged by readers and critics who, struck by his remarkable 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 decades since his disappearance.  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. Finding Everett Ruess is author David Roberts's personal journeys into the remote areas explored by Ruess, interviews with old-timers who encountered the young vagabond and with Ruess's closest living relatives, and a deep immersion in Ruess's writings and artwork.  ISBN:  978-0-307-59176-0