Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again. |
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User Review - Carmenere - LibraryThing"The desert says nothing. Completely passive, acted upon but never acting, the desert lies there like the bare skeleton of Being, spare, sparse, austere, utterly worthless, inviting not love but ... Read full review
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User Review - rivkat - LibraryThingWell, I see why people like him—he’s vicious about people, including himself, while loving the desert around him far more, and describing it with equal wit. Discussing physicists (and riffing on the ... Read full review
Contents
I | xii |
II | 6 |
III | 14 |
IV | 23 |
V | 45 |
VI | 71 |
VII | 99 |
VIII | 116 |
XI | 168 |
XII | 185 |
XIII | 243 |
XIV | 256 |
XV | 269 |
XVI | 287 |
XVII | 310 |
XVIII | 327 |
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| Title | Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness A Ballantine book Ballantine Books Nature Ecological Main Event Series Style of life book |
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0345326490, 9780345326492 |
| Length | 269 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary Nature / General |
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