
Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
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Narrated by:
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Arthur Morey
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David Roberts
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 twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.
“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—Outside
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 seventy-five 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.
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Critic reviews
"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." (Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the film 127 Hours)
"Roberts deftly..captures the complexity of his subject." (Publishers Weekly)
A mystery with great details
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one of my favorite books of all time.
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A great story few no about!
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Enjoy the man.
Enjoy the outdoors.
Do not get caught up in the details.
Just look for yourself.
The listen and the search all worth it.
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Details
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the best
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Very much worth checking out.
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Just fantastic.
4th time through this title.
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Great story, well told!
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What did you like best about Finding Everett Ruess? What did you like least?
I was looking forward to this book on Ruess. The performer is horrible. I forced myself to get through the "Forward" but could not abide any more of the snake like voice of Arthur Morey. I will avoid any other performances by this reader. I gave the story three stars because I could not stand to listen long enough to review it. This review form required a response.What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Never arrived.Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Arthur Morey?
Anyone! Daffy Duck?If this book were a movie would you go see it?
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