Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. " "The desert is...atonal, cruel, clear, neither romantic nor classical, motionless and emotionless at one and the same time....Like death? Perhaps. And perhaps that is why life nowhere appears so brave, so bright, so full of oracle and miracle as in the desert." So Edward Abbey, novelist and poet, describes the desert he loves and in which he spent several..... More
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