| View Larger Image | The Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess | Paperbackby Everett Ruess (Author), W.L Rusho (Editor)
| List Price: | $14.95 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Gibbs Smith | | Edition: | 1stst Edition | | Page Count: | 208 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 1998 | | Sales Rank: | 865,252th |
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Product Description
5 1/2 X 8 1/2 In, 208 Pp, 10 < Line-Drawings, 20 Black & White Photos < "Ruess's Letters Are Stunning, Alive < With Achingly Poetic Descriptions of The < Land. We're Left With A Moving, Ghostly < Vision of A Young Artist At Odds With A < Society Growing Out of Control As He < Escapes Farther and Farther Into An < Unforgiving Wilderness. " --Backpacker < Magazine, About Everett Ruess: A < Vagabond For Beauty. While Most of < Everett's Lyrically Written, Essay-Type < Letters Have Been Made Public In Everett < Ruess: A Vagabond For Beauty (Gibbs < Smith Publisher), His Only Existing < Journals--For 1932 and 1933--Have Never < Before Been Published. These Journals < Were His Companions, A Place Where He < Confided His Joys, His Regrets, His < Complaints, and His Aspirations, As Well < As Some Adventures. They Also Provide < Us With Insight Into Everett's Deeper < Feelings. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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An illumination of the inner Everett Ruess by Arthur L. Lange (Golden,, CO United States)  5 Stars
March 30, 2002
Outwardly the Ruess diaries read very much like a straightforward chronology of his travels during 1932 and 1933, but in amongst the factual information are disclosed insightful nuggets of self-criticism, doubt and despondency that help in rounding out the incomplete picture provided in his elsewhere-published letters. Unfortunately, his mother had erased many lines that were likely the most revealing and confessional passages. Nevertheless, one can still read between the lines and piece together a portrait of the complex character that he was.A valuable document of a remarkable youth.
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