Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

Finding Everett Ruess

The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

2011 • 394 pages

Ratings2

Average rating3.5

15

Fairly interesting book about a fairly uninteresting person. The author spent a lot of time extolling Ruess' virtures, but a) I wasn't sold, and b) it doesn't help the story. It's a great mystery, but this kid makes Chris McCandless look like Ernest Shackleton. Hard to rate on the stars scale, because I obviously just wanted to punch the guy who disappeared. Good enough to read to the end, though, and ultimately worth it.

December 17, 2014