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Sandstone
Sunsets:
In Search of Everett Ruess
by Mark. A. Taylor
From the
Publisher It is difficult to explain what gets under
a person's skin and sets him or her off on the road to solve a puzzle
or riddle that any reasonable person might quickly conclude was unsolvable
The 1934 disappearance of poet and adventurer Everett Ruess in Utah's
redrock country is the mystery that is under author Mark Taylor's
skin, but his attempts to solve this mystery lead him in an unexpected
direction—within. In his southern Utah treks, Taylor encounters
hikers, Native Americans, artists, Vietnam vets, and other colorful
characters. Still, his most significant encounter is himself, and,
though he may never discover the remains of Ruess, his self-discovery
is the unexpected bonus
Shortly before vanishing, Everett Ruess wrote of his affinity with
nature and his love of the desert, "This trip will be longer
than I expected, for I will be in many beautiful places, and do not
wish to taste, but to drink deep." These words become a metaphor
for the journey of self-discovery experiences through Sandstone Sunsets.
Format: Paperback | 128 pages
Publisher: Gibbs
Smith, Publisher; Reprint edition (August, 1997)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
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Pilgrims
to the Wild:
Everett Ruess •
Henry David Thoreau •
John Muir • Clarence King • Mary Austin
by John P. Ogrady
Examines a selection of American writers and their responses to the
natural world.
Publisher: University
of Utah Press; Reprint edition (January 5, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN: 0874804124
Product Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.5 inches
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Into
the Wild
by John Krakauer
From Amazon.com "God, he was a smart kid..."
So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college
education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death
by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is
the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer
the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable
light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey,"
but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test
themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing
on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the
1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through
the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices
of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild
shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author
makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could
never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper
clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he
was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't
soon forget Christopher McCandless.
Publisher: Anchor;
First edition (January 20, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN: 0385486804
Product Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
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