Ballantine Books, Date: 1973. Softcover. New/No Jacket. New Book: Mass Market Paperback 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 Monke 1973. Ballantine Books ISBN 0345326490 9780345326492 [US]

ISBN10: 0345326490, ISBN13: 9780345326492, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review This is not primarily a book about the desert, writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. But the desertis a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite. If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument. What I have tried to do then is something a bit different. Since you cannot get the desert into a book any more than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his nets, I have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as medium than as material. Not imitation but evocation has been the goal. Reprint. Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, c1968. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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ISBN10: 0345326490, ISBN13: 9780345326492, [publisher: Random House USA Inc Jan 1985] Softcover Neuware - 'A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures.set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty.'THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEWEdward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again. 352 pp. Deutsch
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[Grandview Heights, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1971]

ISBN10: 0345326490, ISBN13: 9780345326492, [publisher: Ballantine Books] Softcover 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.
[Richland, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1973]

New York: Ballantine Books. Later printing. Paperback. NEW. 337 pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]; pictorial wrappers. Mass market paperback. Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again. Ballantine Books ISBN 0345326490 US

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