Confessions of a barbarian : selections from the journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989

Abbey, Edward 1927-1989 (Author). Petersen, David, 1946- (Added Author).

Summary: Edward Abbey was an anarchist, activist, philosopher, and the spiritual father of the environmental movement. He was also a passionate journal keeper, a man who filled page after page with notes, philosophical musings, character sketches, illustrations, musical notations, and drawings. His "scribbling," as he called it, began in 1948, when he served as a motorcycle MP in postwar Italy, and continued until his death in 1989, totaling twenty-one volumes. His journals are the closest thing to an Abbey autobiography we will ever have. They reveal his youthful philosophical ruminations about art, love, literature and anarchy; follow his wanderings through Europe and the Eastern States and finally his spiritual home, the American West; and chronicle his lifelong struggle to preserve the disappearing wilderness.--From publisher description.

Item details

ISBN: 0316004154
ISBN: 9780316004152
Physical Description: print
xii, 356 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, c1994.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

November 1951 to April 1952 -- The Spanish Journal December 1951 to January 1952 -- April to June 1952 -- June 1952 to August 1953 -- September 1953 to July 1956 -- August 1956 to November 1957 -- January 1958 to November 1960 -- February 1961 to November 1962 -- December 1962 to July 1966 -- September 1966 to April 1968 -- May 1968 to November 1973 -- February 1974 to October 1977 -- October 1977 to September 1979 -- November 1979 to May 1983 -- A Walk in The Desert Hills December 1981 -- June 1983 to August 1985 -- September 1985 to January 1988 -- January 1988 to March 1989.