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| Title | : | Desert Solitaire |
| Author | : | Edward Abbey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 337 pages |
| Published | : | January 12th 1985 by Ballantine Books (first published 1968) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Autobiography. Memoir. Travel. Adventure |
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Paperback | Pages: 337 pages Rating: 4.22 | 37125 Users | 2414 Reviews
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First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s quest to experience nature in its purest form.Through prose that is by turns passionate and poetic, Abbey reflects on the condition of our remaining wilderness and the future of a civilization that cannot reconcile itself to living in the natural world as well as his own internal struggle with morality. As the world continues its rapid development, Abbey’s cry to maintain the natural beauty of the West remains just as relevant today as when this book was written.
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| Original Title: | Desert Solitaire |
| ISBN: | 0345326490 (ISBN13: 9780345326492) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.22 From 37125 Users | 2414 ReviewsArticle Of Books Desert Solitaire
Why didn't I read this book sooner?? I asked myself....because I was meant to read it now. Right now, as I am looking at the arches and canyons described - as they are so fresh in my mind just returning home. As I can hear the canyon wren's song and feel the sun and breeze and snowflakes on my face.With the Navajo sandstone dust still in my boots. Now was the perfect time.The only problem with waiting so long to read a seminal work, by a seminal author, is that you have the idea in your head who they will be. This? I kept thinking. This is the controversial Edward Abbey? This is whats considered polemic? What, this good-humored common sense?More funny than it has a right to be. More alive. Also, what Abbey held up himself as his standard: interesting, original, important, and true. A deep respect for our wilderness and more importantly, our wildness and a deep
Happy to follow. But Ive been afraid to revisit Abbey. I liked him a great deal when I was a geology student (even as I knew he was no angel), but Im
with Edward Abbey. 4|25|2008: The day I finally finished Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey.Usually I read books very quickly and all at once. Most books don't take me longer than a few days to finish. I just love stories so much that I don't like to stop once I've started. Desert Solitaire, however, has taken me years to get through. I've started it half a dozen times, and every time I love it, but when I set it down I don't pick it back up again. Then in a month or
In his early 30s in the late 1950s, Edward Abbey worked as a seasonal ranger at Arches National Monument (now Arches National Park) in east Utah. He lived in a trailer from April-September; his responsibilities included maintaining trails, talking to tourists, and, at least once, had to go on a search party to find a dead body. Remember that anecdote when you're working whatever summer job you have this year and feel like complaining about it. At least you didn't have to go look for and help
I'm not sure why everyone loves this book, or Edward Abbey in general. I couldn't even finish this. He is a macho hypocritical egomaniac, hiding behind the veil of saving the earth.totally thumbs down.
This came across my horizon through a list book - the 1000 books you should read before you die, by J. Mustich. . . never had I heard of Edward Abbey and his fierce opinions specifically captured in his book Desert Solitaire, all about the nature spilled over the earth in the Four Corners area of the southwest. I don't usually think about that area. . . I was deeply in love there once upon a time, a love that slid into a carefully catered (the most overused word these days, but accurate in many
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