Desert Solitaire"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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Contents
The First Morning | 1 |
Solitaire | 8 |
The Serpents of Paradise | 16 |
Cliffrose and Bayonets | 23 |
Industrial Tourism | 39 |
Cowboys and Indians | 74 |
Part II | 86 |
Into the Maze | 219 |
Bedrock and Paradox | 232 |
Common terms and phrases
Arches beautiful begin better birds blue boats called camp canyon clear cliff climb close clouds Colorado comes course dark dead deep desert drink drive dust east eyes face falling feel feet finally fire flowers foot Graham green ground hand happened hard head heat horse hour human hundred Husk Indians juniper keep land leave light living look mean miles Moab morning mountains moving natural Navajo never night once park pass perhaps pool rain reach rise river road rock sand sandstone seems seen Service shade side snow sound spring stand stone stop stream things thought tourists trail tree truck turn waiting walk walls watch wild wind
Bibliographic information
| Title | Desert Solitaire |
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | University of Arizona Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0816510571, 9780816510573 |
| Length | 255 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers Biography & Autobiography / General Nature / Essays |
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