A Vagabond for Beauty/Wilderness Journals - Rilegato

Ruess, Everett

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ISBN 10: 1586851640 ISBN 13: 9781586851644

Casa editrice: Gibbs Smith, 2002

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Everett Ruess--a bold teenage adventurer, artist, and writer--tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between 1930 and 1934. At the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert. Ruess has become an icon for modern-day adventurers and seekers. His search for ultimate beauty and adventure is chronicled in two books that contain remarkable collections of his writings, extracted from his journals and from letters written to family and friends. Both books are reprinted here in their entirety. < BR>

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Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for BeautyEdited by W. L. Rusho, with an introduction by John Nichols and an afterword by Edward Abbey& Wilderness Journals of Everett RuessEdited and with an introduction by W. L. RushoEverett Ruess--a bold teenage adventureer, artist, and writer, studied and lived with Edward Weston, Maynard Dixon, and Dorothea Lange. He traded prints with Ansel Adams. He tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between the ages of 16 and 20, pursuing his dream of ultimate beauty and oneness with nature. Then in November 1934, at age twenty, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert.This search for ultimate beauty and adventure is chronicled in two books joined in this volume;A Vagabond for Beauty is a remarkable collection of letters to friends and family written during his wanderings; Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess excerpts passages from Everett's only existing journals--for 1932 and 1933.These journals were his companions, a place where he confided his joys, regrets, complaints, and aspirations, as well as some exciting adventures. They also provide insight into Everett's deeper feelings toward the complexities and beauty of life.

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The Beauty and the Tragedy of Everett Ruess
In the mid-Depression year of 1934, Everett Ruess disappeared. His last known camp was in the Escalante River region of southern Utah, a place of bare rock, vertical cliffs, plunging canyons, and soaring bursts, but water itself is scarce. It is a land where earth tones are daily enflamed by the rising sun, change constantly as shadows creep about, diminish, and lengthen throughout the hours, ever contrasting with patterns of colored light. It is canyon country at its finest. As a young artist, Everett Ruess was irresistibly drawn to the Escalante River, not so much to paint and draw as to experience and to draw upon the experience to write, to articulate impressions and reactions, as he had done so often in northern Arizona and California. Everett disappeared before any of his written descriptions, in the form of letters, could be sent from the Escalante. His 1934 diary was never found.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Gibbs Smith
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1586851640
• ISBN 13: 9781586851644
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Redattore: Rusho W. L.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile