At last, one of the most popular books on the American West is
available once again in hardcover. In celebration of the twentieth
anniversary of the publication of "Desert Solitaire, " the
University of Arizona Press is pleased to publish a new edition
featuring a new introduction by the author, his definitive
corrections to the text, and new illustrations commissioned
exclusively for this volume. Edward Abbey's account of two summers
spent in southeastern Utah's canyonlands is surely one of the most
enduring works of contemporary American nature writing. In it he
tells of his stint as a park ranger at Arches National Monument, of
his love for the natural beauty that surrounded him, and of his
distaste for the modernizing improvements designed to increase
visitation to the park. "I confess to being a nature lover," admits
Abbey more than thirty years after his sojourn in the wilderness.
"But I did not mean to be mistaken for a nature writer. I never
wanted to be anything but a writer, period." First published in
1968 to "a few brief but not hostile notices," "Desert Solitaire"
quietly sold out of its first printing but eventually developed a
loyal enough following in paperback to earn Abbey the "nature
writer" label he claims never to have wanted. "Desert Solitaire"
lives on because it is a work that reflects profound love of nature
and a bitter abhorrence of all that would desecrate it. "Abbey is
one of our very best writers about wilderness country," observed
Wallace Stegner in the "Los Angeles Times Book Review"; "he is also
a gadfly with a stinger like a scorpion." "This book may well seem
like a ride on a bucking bronco," added Edwin Way Teale in the "New
York Times." "It is rough, tough, combative...passionately felt,
deeply poetic." But perhaps the spirit of the man, the work, and
the circumstances of its writing were best summarized by Larry
McMurtry in his review for the "Washington Post" "Edward Abbey is
the Thoreau of the American West."
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