Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire- A Season in the Wilderness {trinketbell}.epub

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Originally published in 1968, DESERT SOLITAIRE is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works, and his first foray into non-fiction writing. Written about his seasons as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah, DESERT SOLITAIRE is a rare view of a quest to experience nature in its purest form. Through his passionate and poetic prose, Abbey reflects on the condition of our remaining wilderness, the future of a civilization that cannot reconcile itself to living in the natural world, and his own mortality. In our rapidly developing world, Abbey’s cry to maintain the natural beauty of the West remains just as relevant today.

Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania, in 1927. In 1944, at the age of 17, he set out to explore the American Southwest. Bumming around the country by hitchhiking and hopping freight trains, Abbey developed a love of the desert which would shape his life and art for the next forty years. After a brief military career, Abbey completed his education at the University of New Mexico and the University of Edinburgh. Abbey worked as a park ranger and fire lookout at several different National Parks throughout his life, experiences which provided material for his many works. He died at his home in Oracle, Arizona, in 1989, and is survived by his wife and five children.

Review
An American Masterpiece. A Forceful Encounter with a Man of Character and Courage.
The New York Times Book Review Like a ride on a bucking bronco...rough, tough, combative. The author is a rebel and an eloquent loner. His is a passionately felt, deeply poetic book...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty. --The New Yorker