Finding Everett Ruess the life and unsolved disappearance of a legendary wilderness explorer

Roberts, David 1943- (Author).

Summary: 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: electronic resource
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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.