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Title: Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty by W. L. Rusho, Edward Abbey, John Nichols ISBN: 0-87905-210-4 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: August, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unsolved mystery
Comment: This is a hard book to sum up in a few words. Fascinating and compelling, yes; heartbreaking, often; hair-raising sometimes; exasperating, occasionally. Mostly, it is a vivid reminder of what it is to be still very young, naive, and adventuresome. It's also a book that's very hard to put down.
The reader, of course, knows from the start that Everett Ruess disappears at the age of 21 while on a walkabout somewhere near the Colorado River, in the remote 1930s wilderness of southern Utah. Gifted, bright, and almost painfully sensitive, he writes letters home that are sweetly poignant, thoughtful, opinionated, and rapturously descriptive of the natural environment he loves. Starting at the age of 16, while still a high school student in Hollywood, California, he journeys to Carmel, Arizona, and the Sierras. Leaving UCLA after one unhappy semester, he returns to the Four Corners region of Arizona and drifts northward into Utah where he follows the Escalante down to the Colorado and then vanishes.
A lover of classical music, a reader of books, poet, writer, water colorist, and block print maker, he considers himself very much a misfit in a world of conformity, where people live lives of quiet desperation, pursuing material goals that make them unhappy and unfulfilled. Torn between his desire for companionship and his love of wilderness solitude, he appreciates warm and welcoming company wherever he happens upon it, and seeks it out when he can, sometimes introducing himself to established artists, such as photographers Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. During visits to the home of painter Maynard Dixon, in San Francisco, he is befriended and photographed by Dixon's wife, Dorothea Lange. One of these photographs eventually appears in a missing persons report in a publication of the Los Angeles Police Department.
It's easy to go on and on about this book. The letters provide such a rich psychological portrait of this young man, full of interesting contradictions and curious prophecies of his eventual fate. Meanwhile, there is the mystery of his disappearance and the various theories and speculation about what may have happened to him, which are also included by the book's author.
I am happy to recommend this book to anyone interested in the West, stories about coming of age and self-reliance, rhapsodic descriptions of nature, personal adventures, the desert, Native Americans, and unsolved mysteries. As companion volumes, I'd also suggest Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire" and Eliot Porter's excellent collection of photographs, "The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado."
Rating: 2
Summary: Tree Huggers Unite
Comment: In a word - boring. In two? Boring and dull. Not particularily interesting, not particularily insightful. Blah, blah, blah - it never seems to end. My friend's mother must have been high on crack to recommend this to me. Several hours of my life I'll never get back. I'm a bright guy, PhD, well read, enjoy camping and the outdoors - not as shallow as this review might suggest - but honestly, this book [stink].
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book....
Comment: I throughly enjoyed this book.
Being from No. Az. I was able to comprehend, location wise, Everett's travels and understand his artistic descriptions. Well written in chronological fashion, Rusho challenges readers to speculate on Everett's demise w/o overburdening with his own opinions.
Buy this book and be ready; Everett's a fellow that I think we would all truly like to meet and would appreciate.
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Title: The Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess by W. L. Rusho, Everett Ruess ISBN: 0879058633 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Desert Trails With Everett Ruess by Everett Ruess, Gary James Bergera, W. L. Rusho ISBN: 0879058250 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ISBN: 0385486804 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 20 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, Douglas Brinkley ISBN: 0060956445 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey ISBN: 0380714590 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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