Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess

by Everett Ruess

Book Overview

"I would like to be influenced, taken in hand by some one, but I don't think there is anyone in the world who knows enough to be able to advise me. I can't find my ideal anywhere. So I am rather afraid of myself." --Everett Ruess, 29 May 1932 journal entry Driven to the beauties of Nature, yet both enraptured and tormented by what he say and felt, young Everett Ruess wandered alone through the High Sierras and across the scenic deserts of the Four...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879058633
• ISBN13: 9780879058630
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

An illumination of the inner Everett Ruess

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.