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Finding Everett Ruess the life and unsolved disappearance of a legendary wilderness explorer  Cover Image E-book E-book

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

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: 0307591786 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780307591784 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 394 p. : ill., maps.)
    remote
    electronic resource
  • 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.
Subject: Ruess, Everett b. 1914
Poets, American 20th century Biography
Genre: Electronic books.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Homer Public Library.

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Homer Public Library DIGITAL (Text) 60316-1001 Alaska Digital Library E-Book Available -

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