Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work
as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service.
Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic
prose the landscape of the desert; a world of terracotta earth, empty
skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand
sage. His summers become spirit quests, taking him in search of wild
horses and Ancient Puebloan petroglyphs, up mountains and across tribal
lands, and down the Glen Canyon by river.
He experiences both
sides of his new home; its incredible beauty and its promise of
liberation, but also its isolating, cruel side, at one point discovering
a dead tourist at an isolated area of the Grand Canyon. In
his own irascible style, Abbey uses his time in the desert to meditate
on the tension between nature and civilisation, and outlines a personal
philosophy that would come to heavily influence the environmentalist
movement. Now published in a special edition to celebrate its 50th
Anniversary, this classic seems remarkably prescient, and has lost none
of its power.
Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness - Edward Abbey & Robert Macfarlane (Introduction By)
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