Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess

by Everett Ruess

"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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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"

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.