Everett Ruess : his short life, mysterious death, and astonishing afterlife /
Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the California coast, along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and into the deserts of the Southwest. In the first probing biography of Everett Ruess, accl. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (279 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520949928 0520949927 1283278294 9781283278294 9786613278296 6613278297 |