Edward Abbey

Desert Solitaire

A Season in the Wilderness

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Produktbeschreibung

An account of the author's existence, observations and reflections, as a seasonal park ranger in southeast Utah

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 106mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 184g
• ISBN-13: 9780345326492
• ISBN-10: 0345326490
• Artikelnr.: 22336190

Autorenporträt

Edward Abbey, a self-proclaimed “agrarian anarchist,” was hailed as the “Thoreau of the American West.” Known nationally as a champion of the individual and one of America’s foremost defenders of the natural environment, he was the author of twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, and The Journey Home. In 1989, at the age of sixty-two, Edward Abbey died in Oracle, Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Author's Introduction
The First Morning
Solitaire
The Serpents of Paradise
Cliffrose and Bayonets
Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks
Rocks
Cowboys and Indians
Cowboys and Indians Part II
Water
The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud
The Moon-Eyod Horse
Down the River
Havasu
The Dead Man at Grandview Point
Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert
Episodes and Visions
Terra Incognita: Into the Maze
Bedrock and Paradox