The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American WestThe Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that we’ll not soon forget, offering us the observations of a man who left the urban world behind to think about the natural world and the myths buried therein. Abbey, our foremost “ecological philosopher,” has a voice like no other. He can be wildly funny, ferociously acerbic, and unexpectedly moving as he ardently champions our natural wilderness and castigates those who would ravish it for the perverse pleasure of profit. |
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User Review - nmele - LibraryThingThis collection of Abbey essays has not aged as well as Desert Solitaire, but still contains some wonderful writing about nature and about the American west, all of it from the mountains to the ... Read full review
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User Review - amerynth - LibraryThingA great collection of Edward Abbey's essays on a wide range of environmental topics. I particularly enjoyed his personal reminisces, with the highlight being a hilarious trip to Big Bend with a soon ... Read full review
Contents
Hallelujah on the Bum | 1 |
The Great American Desert | 12 |
Disorder and Early Sorrow | 23 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West |
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| Publisher | Penguin Publishing Group, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0452265622, 9780452265622 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers Travel / Essays & Travelogues Travel / United States / West / General |
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