Desert Solitaire, Abbey, Edward, Very Good Book
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780671695880
- Book Title
- Desert Solitaire
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Nature, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Literary, Social Activists, Parks & Campgrounds
- Item Weight
- 7.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Touchstone
ISBN-10
0671695886
ISBN-13
9780671695880
eBay Product ID (ePID)
151788
Product Key Features
Book Title
Desert Solitaire
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Literary, Social Activists, Parks & Campgrounds
Publication Year
1990
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
89-021764
Reviews
The 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 Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
917.8
Table Of Content
CONTENTS 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
Synopsis
Hailed 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 Number
PS3551.B2Z463 1990
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If you love the desert, you need this. If you hate the desert, you definitely need this.
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