DESERT SOLITAIRE, widely considered to be one of Abbey's best books, is the account of two summers he spent in the canyon lands of southeastern Utah. First published in 1968, the book has acquired a huge following over the years, and stands as one of the author's most impassioned pleas for the preservation of the wilderness, and has become a ...
The maverick travel writer and environmentalist Edward Abbey, known principally for his distinctively American writing, provides more of the same in this evocative book of essays, but he also ventures outside the States and travels to Scotland, Australia, and the bleak Isla de la Sombra in Mexico.
Edward Abbey goes beyond the wall of the city to write about the deserts and the rivers where he feels truly at home. Hiking the desert, traveling the river, Abbey looks not only into his environment and man's effect on it, but into the wilderness of the human heart and soul. These ten essays are reprinted from introductions Abbey has written for ...
"But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books." And write letters Ed Abbey did. In his famous -- or infamous -- 45-year career, Abbey's cards and letters became as legendary as his books for their wit, vitriol, and ability to speak truth to power. Published here for the first time, the letters offer a fascinating, often ...
The famously cranky activist and writer Edward Abbey is revealed in this biography as the immature womanizer he is reputed to be, but also as a fascinating, lovable, and complex man defiantly committed to the causes he espoused. James M. Cahalan uses interviews, letters and diaries, and Abbey's voluminous works in creating his portrait, and the ...
Between 1951 and his death in 1989, Edward Abbey amassed 21 volumes of his personal journals. This collection of excerpts constitutes an autobiography, chronicling his youthful travels, the gradual evolution of his obsessive love for the American West, his romances and marriages, the genesis of many of his writing projects, and his activities as a ...
This study assesses the literary career of Edward Abbey. The author asserts that his role as social commentator and environmental activist is complemented by his guise as a writer of romance - one who reconceives the contemporary world in order to envision a better one.
An introduction to the life of Edward Abbey--novelist, essayist, naturalist, philosopher and social critic. Includes Abbey's own writings as well as interviews with friends.
Edward Abbey--writer, social critic, and environmentalist--was an icon of resistance and a man of letters. Widely known as "the Thoreau of the American Westt", Abbey briugh a subversive and anarchic spirit to his defense of the wilderness and to a society that continually threatened it. In this tribute to him, 37 friends, students, acquaintances, ...
Rarely does an author so thoroughly entertain and anger his readers as Edward Abbey does. This book focuses on Abbey's aesthetic and philosophy of paradox as they are reflected in his writings, and explores his literary technique of blurring traditional genres regarding fiction and nonfiction. Until now, no study has sufficiently treated the full ...
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