Use very good desert solitaire season in the wilderness by Edward abbey

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 overwhelm-

ing 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 trea-

sures can be saved before the bulldozers strike again.

Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania, in 1927. He was educated at the

University of New Mexico and the University of Edinburgh. He died at his home in

Oracle, Arizona, in 1989.