Desert Solitaire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert Solitaire write by Edward Abbey. This book was released on 2011-08-21. Desert Solitaire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This memoir of life in the American desert by the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang is a nature writing classic on par with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey recounts his many escapades, adventures, and epiphanies as an Arches National Park ranger outside Moab, Utah. Brimming with arresting insights, impassioned arguments for wilderness conservation, and a raconteur’s wit, it is one of Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works. Through stories and philosophical musings, Abbey reflects on the condition of our remaining wilderness, the future of a civilization, and his own internal struggle with morality. As the world continues its rapid development, Abbey’s cry to maintain the natural beauty of the West remains just as relevant today as when this book first appeared in 1968.
Desert Cabal
Desert Cabal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert Cabal write by Amy Irvine. This book was released on 2018-11-06. Desert Cabal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them." —PAM HOUSTON As Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.
The Serpents of Paradise
The Serpents of Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Serpents of Paradise write by Edward Abbey. This book was released on 1995. The Serpents of Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From boyhood in Home, Pennsylvania, to his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989, this book offers - in Abbey's own words - the world of an American original. Whether writing fact or fiction, Abbey was always an autobiographer. Each of the thirty-five selections presented here, arranged chronologically by date of incident (not of publication), demonstrates that Abbey was passionately, insistently his own man. As poet-farmer Wendell Berry puts it: "He remains Edward Abbey, speaking as and for himself, fighting, literally, for dear life ... for the survival not only of nature, but of human nature, of culture, as only our heritage of works and hopes can define it". To speak for the voiceless was his mission. He was a virtuoso of the well-phrased thought in which style and content, symbol and meaning - each imbued with humor - come together to defy the powerful, reminding us always that preservation of wild nature is a key to a free spirit. And along with Emerson and Thoreau, Abbey, the uncompromising stylist, knew that the corruption of language follows the corruption of man. "Language", Abbey wrote, "seeks to transcend itself, 'to grasp the thing that has no name.'"
Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert Solitaire write by Edward Abbey. This book was released on 1972. Desert Solitaire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hayduke Lives!
Hayduke Lives! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hayduke Lives! write by Edward Abbey. This book was released on 2011-08-21. Hayduke Lives! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Abbey’s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back—and not a moment too soon” (The New York Times). George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he’s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . This sequel to Edward Abbey’s cult classic brings back the old gang of environmental warriors, as they battle a fundamentalist preacher intent on turning the Grand Canyon into a uranium mine—in “a fine novel, combative and comic, anarchistic and ultimately redemptive” (Albuquerque Journal). “I laughed out loud reading this book.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
