Description
Blending travelogue, memoir, nature writing, and political meditation, this book follows Edward Abbey through the Australian outback, Mexico, the Gulf of California, the Grand Canyon, and other stark, magnificent landscapes. Along the way, he recounts encounters, river journeys, and solitary adventures while reflecting on the beauty and peril of deserts increasingly threatened by development and modern complacency. Abbey’s vivid prose captures storms, wildlife, silence, and sunlit terrain with poetic force, even as his trademark irreverence fuels sharp critiques of tourism, consumerism, and environmental destruction. Passionate, provocative, and unapologetically personal, the book is both a celebration of wilderness and a call to defend the natural world before it slips beyond reach.
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paperback
Dutton
Published Jan 1, 1979
198 pages
ISBN: 052505006X
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First Published
1979
Language
eng
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