Desert Solitaire

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Hailed by The New York Times as “a passionately felt, deeply poetic book,” the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, regarded as the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southwestern wilderness.

Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in the wilderness and the nature of the desert itself by park ranger and conservationist, Edward Abbey. The book details the unique adventures and conflicts the creator faces, from dealing with the damage caused by development of the land or over the top tourism, to discovering a dead body. Alternatively Desert Solitaire is not just a collection of one man’s stories, the book could also be a philosophical memoir, full of Abbey’s reflections on the desert as a paradox, at once beautiful and liberating, but also isolating and cruel. Ceaselessly in comparison to Thoreau’s Walden, Desert Solitaire is a powerful discussion of life’s mysteries set against the stirring backdrop of the American southwestern wilderness.
Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, the noted creator’s most enduring nonfiction work, is an account of Abbey’s seasons as a ranger at Arches National Park out of doors Moab, Utah. Abbey reflects on the nature of the Colorado Plateau desert, on the condition of our remaining wilderness, and on the way forward for a civilization that cannot reconcile itself to living in the wildlife. He also recounts adventures with scorpions and snakes, obstinate tourists and entrenched bureaucrats, and, most powerful of all, with his own mortality. Abbey’s account of getting stranded in a rock pool down a side branch of the Grand Canyon is at once hilarious and terrifying.

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