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Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness / by Edward Abbey ; drawings by Peter Parnall.

Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 (Author).

Summary:

When Desert Solitaire was 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 of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and 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 Solitaire asks if any of our incalculable natural treasures can be saved before the bulldozers strike again.

Item details

ISBN: 0671695886
ISBN: 9780671695880
Physical Description: xiv, 269 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1990.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

" ... Desert solitaire was first published in 1968"--P. [4] of cover.

"A Touchstone book."

Formatted Contents Note:

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-eyed horse -- Down the river -- Havasu -- The dead man at Grandview Point -- Tukuhnikivats, the island in the desert -- Episodes and vivions -- Terra incognita: into the maze -- Bedrock and paradox.

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Subject:

Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography.
Environmentalists > United States > Biography.
Park rangers > United States > Biography.
Desert biology > Utah > Arches National Park.
Arches National Park (Utah)

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