![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Finding Everett Ruess by David Robertsis a 394-page hardcover published by Broadway Books, New York. ![]()
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