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Desert Solitaire

A Season in the Wilderness

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Desert Solitaire

Auteur(s): Edward Abbey
Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
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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.

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 treasures can be saved before the bulldozers strike again.

©1968 Edward Abbey (P)2011 Tantor Nature et écologie Science

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"Like a ride on a bucking bronco . . . rough, tough, combative. The author is a rebel and an eloquent loner. His is a passionately felt, deeply poetic book . . . set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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I found this book pretty weird. It oscillated between beautiful descriptions of the desert southwest, and outdated, angry old man rants. Very entertaining. It contains a lot of ideas that made me think about public lands in a new way.

Weird and I liked it

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First off, the narration is perfect. The book is filled with descriptions of Utah, a place that I personally fell in love with the first time I visited. There are many descriptions of nature juxtaposed with tirades about industrial tourism. But something else too, the yearning for preserving nature and fear, almost panic, of losing it and and the ache we feel to be acknowledged by nature, like unrequited love. The more we are in awe of nature, the more we are reminded that capitalism is as indifferent to nature as nature is to capitalism, and the more we love a place, the more it is under threat of being recognised as an untapped market for big business. Abbey puts words to this feeling so well, that the book really didn't need an"beginning, middle, and end"

Captures the Feeling of Longing for Nature

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I enjoyed this book, especially it's description of Arches and surrounding area. Abbey's strong opinions on American culture in the 1960s were interesting if a bit dated but overall the book made me really want to explore the deserts he describes.

made me want to visit the desert southwest!

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For Abbeys sake, read this book and get off your ass and out into the world.

- God

Life changing

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Was told that this was a good one to put on my list. It was well done.

Great

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