Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess - Softcover

DeMayo, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991118316 ISBN 13: 9780991118311

Publisher: Wayward Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess follows the adventures of the young vagabond from his appearance in the southwest in 1931 when he was only seventeen, until he seemingly disappeared in 1934, shortly before he turned 21. In this compelling narrative, Robert Louis DeMayo has taken journal excerpts and the letters Everett sent to family and friends, and turned them into scenes, and given us a glimpse of the young artist as he lived with Navajo and Hopi, and explored the southwest with a dog named Curly and a couple burros. Upon reading it, Brian Ruess wrote, "In this work of fiction ... I saw Everett for the first time, as he might actually have been."

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Louis DeMayo took up writing at the age of twenty when he left his job as a biomedical engineer to explore the world. Over the coming years he traveled to every corner of the globe, experiencing approximately one hundred countries. He is a member of The Explorers Club and The Archaeological Institute of America. During his travels he worked extensively for the travel section of The Telegraph, out of Hudson, NH. For three years he worked as marketing director for Eos, a company that served as a travel office for six non-profit organizations and offered dives to the Titanic and the Bismarck, Antarctic voyages, African safaris and archaeological tours throughout the world. Following this, Robert worked for three years as a tour guide in Alaska and the Yukon during the summers, and as a jeep guide in Sedona, Arizona, during the winter. He was general manager at A Day in the West, a Jeep tour company in Sedona before he decided to write full time. He is the author of five novels: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt, The Light Behind Blue Circles, The Wayward Traveler, The Road to Sedona, and Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess. His novel, The Wayward Traveler, won a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. This memoir-based story follows, Louis, a young adventurer, who runs out of money while abroad and creates a list of Rules for Survival to get by. His most recent novel, Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess, is a historical fiction account of the young man’s exploration of the southwest between 1931 and 1935. Currently he resides in Hollis, N.H. and Sedona, AZ, with his wife Diana and three daughters: Tavish Lee, Saydrin Scout, and Martika Louise.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wayward Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0991118316
• ISBN 13: 9780991118311
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320