Authors, American-20th century-Biography. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3551.B2 Z463 1990 SUBJECTS: Abbey, Edward, 1927-Biography. Arches National Park (Utah) DEWEY DEC: 818/.5/403 LCCN: 67-26166 r892Ībbey, Edward, 1927- Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness / by Edward Abbey drawings by Peter Parnall. Desert biology-Utah-Arches National Park. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3551.B2 Z5 SUBJECTS: Abbey, Edward, 1927-Biography. Library of Congress Data Abbey, Edward, 1927- Desert solitaire a season in the wilderness. Web Bookstore in affiliation with Books.įor more information, or select one of the following: You can now order the items listed below directly via Writing were best summarized by Larry McMurtry in his reviewįor the Washington Post: "Edward Abbey is the Spirit of the man, the work, and the circumstances of its Passionately felt, deeply poetic." But perhaps the Scorpion." "This book may well seem like a ride onĪ bucking bronco," added Edwin May Teale in the New "he is also a gadfly with a stinger like a Wallace Stegner in the Los Angeles Times Book Review Very best writers about wilderness country," observed That reflects profound love of nature and a bitter abhorrence Quietly sold out of its first printing and eventuallyĭeveloped a loyal following in paperback.ĭesert Solitaire lives on because it is a work Writer, period." First published in 1968 to "a fewīrief but not hostile notices," Desert Solitaire
Make the book available once again in a hardcover edition,įeaturing a new introduction by the author, his definitiveĬorrections to the text, and eighteen illustrationsĬommissioned exclusively for this volume.Īdmits Abbey more than thirty years after his sojourn in the Solitaire, the University of Arizona Press is pleased to
Of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Desert Works of contemporary American nature writing.
Southeastern Utah's canyonlands is one of the most enduring 35.Įdward Abbey's account of two summers spent in To get a flavor of this wonderful book, read this excerpt published in The Arid Lands Newsletter No. Non-fiction books are collections of essays and magazine This is also a fairly well-integrated whole - most of his later Is by far his best, and one of the best books I've ever read. Don't walk, to the bookstore or library and get this book.
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