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- Title: Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
- Author: DavidRoberts Jon Krakauer
- ISBN: 9780307591760
- Page: 204
- Format: Hardcover
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I think I just find David Roberts to be a boring writer I couldn t get into this With all the speculation about whether or not Ruess was bipolar, does no one think that maybe he was just nineteen Any of my writing from the time I was nineteen was probably pretty manic depressive, and I think swinging from one extreme to the next emotionally is pretty much a definition of life from 13 20 years of age At least.
I m not sure what to make of this book The story of Everett Ruess might be interesting maybe the author s way of telling it was just boring Or maybe my irritation was with Ruess himself his selfish entitlement in demanding his parent s financial support of his wanderings for four years, his pedantic descriptions of the wonders he encountered in his travels, his racist attitude toward the Navaho people, his cavalier destruction of ancient artifacts and wildlife sacred to the Native People And who [...]
I could not get into this book I gave it 3 chapters roughly 1 3 of the book and I kept getting frustrated I feel bad for his family not getting closure, but I feel that he acted like a spoiled child Writing letters home while wandering through the Southwest asking for food money getting upset that they wanted him to come home I didn t enjoy reading his letters where he kept speaking bad about the Native Americans He was going through old burial grounds looting items even thought it was not illeg [...]
Painfully poorly written and filled with cliches, this is a strong candidate for worst book of the year published by a major press The author never once presents a single fact to back up his oft repeated claims that Everett Reuss was an important writer and a lover of the wilderness who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Thoreau That claim, repeated than once, makes me wonder if Roberts has ever read Thoreau Poor, lost Ruess stands in the same relationship to Thoreau as Justin Biebe [...]
Although he doesn t actually come out and say so, David Roberts is probably the single most important writer who has brought Everett Ruess to the attention of the general public He did so first by bringing Everett to the attention of his friend Jon Krakauer who included a chapter on Everett in Into the Wild Then, Roberts wrote two articles a decade a part for National Geographic Adventure magazine on Everett Finding Everett Ruess is really well done The first part is a dispassionate biography of [...]
I first heard about Everett Ruess on NPR, where the author David Roberts was interviewed about his book, Finding Everett Ruess I thought, Hey, that sounds fascinating but since I was driving I didn t remember the details and upon getting home, didn t look it up However, the name stuck with me, and so did the story of the 20 year old that went missing in the desert Southwest wilderness in 1934.The first half of the book is a reconstruction of Ruess life based on his letters, diaries, and other pr [...]
This is such an incredible story I m not sure where to begin Everett Ruess was a young artist writer explorer who disappeared in 1934 at the age of 20 while exploring along the Utah Arizona border His remains have never been found and speculation continues regarding the circumstances of his disappearance and death Many have tried and failed to solve the mystery The first part of the book is dedicated to finding Everett Ruess as a person through his writing, art, and personal letters to family an [...]
I m not quite sure why there is a cult of idol worship for selfish young men who tramp off into the wilderness on their own Everett Ruess disappeared in the 1930 s in the red rock country of Southern Utah after spending several years popping around the West, completely financially supported by his parents in the midst of the Great Depression, mind you , and considering himself an artist He regularly destroys Native artifacts and sites, breaking into ancient hogans, carving his name on artifacts [...]
Until I picked up this book, I had never heard of Everett Ruess Like Wallace Stegner, I am not blown away by the excerpts of this would be young poet s writing included in his book I am impressed by Ruess s love of nature and scenery and his courage in exploring on his own I was very surprised that his parents would allow a 16 year old to venture out into the wilderness alone However, the 1930 s were very different times Naturally, the tale of his disappearance and the efforts to find him are fa [...]
Americans love to deify the lost, young wanderer There is terrible envy in the Dave Alvin lyrics on Everett Ruess You give your dreams away as you get older Oh, but I never gave up mine And they ll never find my body, boys Or understand my mind In Finding Everett Ruess, Roberts chronicles the life of the youthful Everett Ruess, a young poet artist wanna be, who, mooching off his parents during the Great Depression, would buy himself two burros and camping supplies and wander off into the desert [...]
Say that I starved that I was lost and weary That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases Lonely and wet and coldbut that I kept my dream Everett Ruess, Wilderness Song I first heard of Everett Ruess a few years ago when I read Jon Krakauer s Into the Wild His true adventure story about the 1992 disappearance of Christopher McCandless into the Alaska wilderness almost seemed an echo of Everett s story, separated by sixty years and thousands of mil [...]
If, like me, you know nothing about Everett Ruess, here s a quick intro Everett was 17 in 1931 when he decided to travel throughout the Southwest, he made three trips and disappeared in 1934, leaving behind several diaries, paintings, woodcuts, poems and a mystery that s lasted over 70 years The majority of his childhood was conventional, the exception being his family s keeping of, and reading to each other, personal diaries Given that this was the early 1910s and 20s, the family moved as Ruess [...]
I really liked this book a lot I am huge fan of Jon Krakauer so this book was written just for me I had only heard of Everett Ruess from the book Into the Wild and admittedly I went back and reread that section of the book There were defintely simularities between NEMO and Alexander Supertramp There has obviously been a lot of research on the subject of ER and all the theories about his disappearance I liked hearing all the theories and I especially liked the last one I thought the book was goin [...]
I love playing detective That s why I got sent to Fiji in 2003 to look for the bones of Amelia Earhart.The disappearance of Everett Ruess in 1934 is one of the great cold cases in American literature This is an excellent account of Ruess four years of solitary wanderings in the American southwest as well as a summary of how his fan base has grown in the last 80 years.The finding of a body in a crevice raised hopes that Ruess had been found DNA and forensic reconstruction seemed to support that t [...]
I won this book through Firstreads Thanks This story was well researched, well documented and well written I just never did feel particularly interested in or connected to this lone teen who took off traveling in the American West in the 30s I feel sorry for his family to never know what happened to him, but I just didn t think his life or any of the many detailed letters he wrote were very profound or intriguing I think he may have had some emotional or mental problems, some exacerbated by bein [...]
Everett Ruess was a 20 year old man who had fallen in love with the rugged terrain of the American southwest As avid hiker, explorer and artist he had tramped through much of the Grand Canyon and surrounding area in the early 1930s In late 1934 he left on another such trip and was never seen again Roberts covers Reuss early life by paying due attention to his diaries and letters and we learn of a talented but troubled guy But half the book is devoted to the post disappearance era The Ruess famil [...]
I love this book The reviews here are very mixed because it seems like you are either inspired by young wilderness romantics like Everett Ruess or Into the Wild s Chris McCandless , or you find them annoying, naive, and a waste of attention I m solidly in the first camp Ruess s solo treks through the Southwest were amazing In the early 1930s, when Ruess was 17 20, he wandered hundreds of miles through lonely canyons for months at a time, accompanied only by burros That s awesome As a suburban de [...]
I left a long review for this book in 2012, and I had no idea that my review had since been removed or when By the way, I loved the book, thus my review was very complimentary and I can not understand why staff would have decided to delete it I am looking to see if I still have a copy of it somewhere in my backlogs notes, but in the meantime let me just say that I really liked it and I thought David Roberts drew a very compelling psychological portrait of the young man Everett Ruess This is one [...]
When Everett Ruess was still in his teens in the early 1930s, he began taking long solo journeys across California and the desert Southwest Drawn by a love of nature and an obsession with beauty, the young poet and painter led his burros up rocky mountain trails and across scorching deserts But on one such journey that had taken him into southern Utah, Ruess disappeared forever, leaving only cryptic clues as to his fate Author David Roberts takes us along Ruess journeys, eventually becoming part [...]
I liked this book David Roberts really did his research and it shows in the details However, the story is a bit uneven At times it was gripping and at other times my interest waned This, however, is not because the author is not writing an evenly paced book it comes from the real life ebb and flow of the story itself The leads that are fresh and exciting then fizzle out, the wildly exciting adventures and places then the return to suburban normalcy, it is all part of the legend that is Everett [...]
Prior to plucking this book off the library shelf I d never heard of Everett Ruess Being thus unaware of this legendary wilderness explorer I was able to enjoy the roller coaster ride narrated by David Roberts The ending would have been ruined had I known any of the story before reading this book One of the interesting aspects of this tale is the process by which a 20 year old vagabond with average artistic talent becomes an icon of the southwest It says as much about the public s fascination wi [...]
3.5 stars Mostly interesting biography A little slow at the beginning, where I skimmed some of the background information Perhaps, because I have read all the other books on Ruess Where it really took off, was the background and details surrounding the finding of the Comb Ridge Man , believed for a while to have solved Everett s death and disappearance It still remains a fascinating mystery, complete with erroneous DNA results, dinosaur bones on Comb Ridge, family feuds in Escalante and a new NE [...]
The story of the search for Everett Ruess is almost as fascinating as his brief, wandering life Although Roberts resides in Cambridge, Mass he knows his way around the Utah desert I really enjoyed his book on the Anasazi a couple of years ago IN SEARCH OF THE OLD ONES By the way, I think the folks down in Eskalant know what really happened to Everett.
At only 20, Everett Ruess disappeared while out hiking on his own His body has never been recoveredd a legend is born If you had any interest in Chris McCandless Into the Wild or ever dreamed of heading off into the unknownen check out this book.
The most annoying authorial voice I have run into in ages And for all the endless whinging that Ruess wasn t gay or mentally ill, I am now convinced and I am brand new to Ruess lore that he was both.
The definitive biography of the remarkable Everett Ruess Read this and Vagabond for Beauty by Rusho and you ll be an expert on the beautiful, short, and remarkable life of the boy who placed nature above all else His legacy continues to inspire people like us Southwest desert rats.
Great read for any lover of Southwest lore.
Absolutely captivating Sending this one to my Dad for his birthday.
I have just finished two books that complement one another about an incredible adventurer by the name of Everett Ruess He explored the wild, rugged northeast territory of Arizona, the southeast area of Utah, northwest New Mexico, the Sierras in California, as well as the sourthern coastline of Califorina from L.A to San Francisco, including Big Sur and Yosemite in the years of 1930 to 1934, at the ages of 16 till 20 At that time he dissappeared while exporing the Badlands on The Hole in the Rock [...]
I found this book at a thrift store, and was interested because I also had a National Geographic Adventure article about Everett Ruess that I had filed away The book may be overly detailed at times, and is a bit dreary, but overall I found it worthwhile to read, especially if you are a lover of the Southwest Yes, Everett came across to me as somewhat spoiled and generally unimpressive at times, but at the same time I admired what he was doing, and found the story compelling The writing was okay [...]