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. This title goes beyond the myth to reveal the realities of Ruess' short life and mysterious death and finds in the artist's astonishing afterlife a lonely hero who persevered.
"Fradkin tries . . . to sift through the legends to get to the heart of the genuine person. . . . . Tell[s] a gripping tale of a young man consumed by the nature he so desperately loved."
