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Desert solitaire a season in the wilderness

Abbey, Edward 1927-1989 (Author).

Summary: When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah. This is a rare view of a quest to experience nature in its purest form -- the silence, the struggle, the overwhelming beauty. But this is also the gripping, anguished cry of a man of character who challenges the growing exploitation of the wilderness by oil and mining interests, as well as by the tourist industry. Abbey's observations and challenges remain as relevant now as the day he wrote them. Today, Desert Solitaire asks if any of our incalculable natural treasures can be saved before the bulldozers strike again.

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  • ISBN: 0795317484 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780795317484 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0795317492 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780795317491 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 269 p.) : ill.
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    electronic resource
  • Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1990.

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General Note:
" ... Desert solitaire was first published in 1968"--P. [4] of cover.
"A Touchstone book."
Formatted Contents Note: 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-eyed horse -- Down the river -- Havasu -- The dead man at Grandview Point -- Tukuhnikivats, the island in the desert -- Episodes and vivions -- Terra incognita: into the maze -- Bedrock and paradox.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.

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Subject: Arches National Park (Utah)
Desert biology Utah Arches National Park
Park rangers United States Biography
Environmentalists United States Biography
Novelists, American 20th century Biography
Abbey, Edward 1927-1989
Genre: Electronic books.

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