He experiences both sides of his new home its incredible beauty and its promise of liberation, but also its isolating, cruel side, at one point discovering a dead tourist at an isolated area of the Grand Canyon. His summers become spirit quests, taking him in search of wild horses and Ancient Puebloan petroglyphs, up mountains and across tribal lands, and down the Glen Canyon by river. Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand sage. In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. He died at his home in Oracle, Arizona, in 1989.‘My favourite book about the wilderness’ Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild He was educated at the University of New Mexico and the University of Edinburgh. A Forceful Encounter with a Man of Character and Courage.Ībout the Author Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania, in 1927. His is a passionately felt, deeply poetic t down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty. The author is a rebel and an eloquent loner. The New York Times Book Review Like a ride on a bucking bronco.rough, tough, combative. Often compared to Thoreau's Walden, Desert Solitaire is a powerful discussion of life's mysteries set against the stirring backdrop of the American southwestern wilderness. However Desert Solitaire is not just a collection of one man's stories, the book is also a philosophical memoir, full of Abbey's reflections on the desert as a paradox, at once beautiful and liberating, but also isolating and cruel. The book details the unique adventures and conflicts the author faces, from dealing with the damage caused by development of the land or excessive tourism, to discovering a dead body. Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in the wilderness and the nature of the desert itself by park ranger and conservationist, Edward Abbey. Book Synopsis Hailed by The New York Times as "a passionately felt, deeply poetic book," the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southwestern wilderness.
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