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Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness
Are you one of those city-people? Working all day in buildings surrounded by steel and stone? Read this book and you wish to be in that wilderness. With poetic words Abbey makes you dream of deep canyons, hot deserts, powerful rivers and high mountains. Feel the heat, thirst and happiness. This book contains the personal and critical view and the experience of an outdoor man in an industrial world. It tells stories about dangerous adventures full of action an humor. If you have ever been in the canyon country this book is a must.
Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness
This slim volume describes Edward Abbey's experiences in and around Arches National Park, mostly before it was developed. The book is a collection of related essays rather thanone single narrative. It includes some very entertaining anecdotes, beautiful descriptions of nature, and Abbey's observations on the commercialization of the remaining American wilderness areas. As it was written in the 1960s, it is somewhat dated but gives a good idea of what Arches was like before the National Parks Service `improved' it. One of the main points it makes is that it is not possible to make wilderness areas easily accessible and still maintain the feeling of being in the wilderness.This book should be especially appreciated by those who are presently between trips to the Southwest; although it is unfortunately only a rather poor substitute for the real thing.
Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness
This book stinks of Neitzsche. Mr. Abbey was as much a loaner as Fredreiche ever was. While staying at the Lazy Lizard Hostel in Moab, I read this book for the first time and discovered the greatness of this desert land in my two week stay there. The desert of Utah is uncompromising and incompassionate, not to be taken advantage of. The small area of land known as Moab is not for the faint of heart, its for those who love nature at its extreme. Unfortunately, the street (there is really only one) of Moab is now lined with 4x4 rental places, a Wendy's, a McDonald's, and all the other garbage that comes with civilization. Abbey's premontions were correct, this place has sadly turned into a Mecca for tourits and 4 wheelers who have no respect for this land and those who came before them. If you go here, pay close attention to the rock and how time has played its cruel tricks upon it, clockwise as the Arches deteriorate.
Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness
When Edward Abbey writes about the natural scenery of Utah it is splendid and a joy. When he moves on to his philosophy it is a struggle to stick through to the next page. The level of his hypocrisy is only matched by the level of his misanthropy. I could respect his opinions if he had quit work and moved to the desert, but he took a job for a capitalist government to tend the needs of the tourists, so all his rants about the same ring hollow. His ideas are what you would expect for a first year college student angry with society, not the deep thinker he takes himself to be. The number of glowing reviews really surprises me. I suspect many of them maybe didn't get passed the first couple chapters (which are great, great chapters). It's a wonderful topic but there are probably better sources out there.
Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness
This book arrived promptly and is in good condition. There were no torn pages and the print is clear. I am satisfied with this book. Thank you.
Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness
An excellent book, written in first person, experiencing the wilds and the desert. Author uses excellent imagery and his articulation of the language is exceptional! Thank you E. Abbey for a wonderful read!