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Desert Solitaire - A Season in the Wilderness (Paperback, 50th Anniversary Edition First edition)
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Desert Solitaire - A Season in the Wilderness (Paperback, 50th Anniversary Edition First edition)
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`My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of
Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing,
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.
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