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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (1990, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTouchstone
ISBN-100671695886
ISBN-139780671695880
eBay Product ID (ePID)151788
Product Key Features
Book TitleDesert Solitaire
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1990
TopicEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Literary, Social Activists, Parks & Campgrounds
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorEdward Abbey
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.7 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN89-021764
Dewey Edition20
ReviewsThe New York Times Book Review Like a ride on a bucking bronco...rough, tough, combative. The author is a rebel and an eloquent loner. His is a passionately felt, deeply poetic book...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty., The New York Times Book ReviewLike a ride on a bucking bronco...rough, tough, combative. The author is a rebel and an eloquent loner. His is a passionately felt, deeply poetic book...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty.
Dewey Decimal917.8
Table Of ContentCONTENTS Author's Introduction The First Morning Solitaire The Serpents of Paradise Cliffrose and Bayonets Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks Rocks Cowboys and Indians Cowboys and Indians Part II Water The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud The Moon-Eyod Horse Down the River Havasu The Dead Man at Grandview Point Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert Episodes and Visions Terra Incognita: Into the Maze Bedrock and Paradox
SynopsisHailed by The New York Times as "a passionately felt, deeply poetic book," the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southwestern wilderness. Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in the wilderness and the nature of the desert itself by park ranger and conservationist, Edward Abbey. The book details the unique adventures and conflicts the author faces, from dealing with the damage caused by development of the land or excessive tourism, to discovering a dead body. However Desert Solitaire is not just a collection of one man's stories, the book is also a philosophical memoir, full of Abbey's reflections on the desert as a paradox, at once beautiful and liberating, but also isolating and cruel. Often compared to Thoreau's Walden , Desert Solitaire is a powerful discussion of life's mysteries set against the stirring backdrop of the American southwestern wilderness., WhenDesert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author ofThe Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Roadand many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah. This is a rare view of a quest to experience nature in its purest form -- the silence, the struggle, the overwhelming beauty. But this is also the gripping, anguished cry of a man of character who challenges the growing exploitation of the wilderness by oil and mining interests, as well as by the tourist industry.Abbey's observations and challenges remain as relevant now as the day he wrote them. Today,Desert Solitaireasks if any of our incalculable natural treasures can be saved before the bulldozers strike again.
LC Classification NumberPS3551.B2Z463 1990
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- 03 Oct, 2017
If you love the desert, you need this. If you hate the desert, you definitely need this.
Edward Abbey tells it like it is, you are stepping in the mind of a rebel on nature's side. His experiences in the National Park system really explains how his point of view became. It has inspired me to go backpacking here in the deserts of Arizona, I thank Abbey for that.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Feb, 2022
Living alone in desert environs
This book is well written and provides a great deal of information not only about "Arches National Monument", but about the natural world in general.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 17 Feb, 2020
Great book!
Happy with interaction from start to finish!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Oct, 2018
Vanishing wonder of Utah.
All good!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 13 Jun, 2017
Love it!
Fantastic read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 14 Jul, 2017
Beautiful Writing on the Importance of Landscapes
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
