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By Edward Abbey. Abbey's first important
nonfiction book since DESERT SOLITAIRE (an underground bestseller, actively alive
today, a decade after its first publication). His new book is
alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs and mountain
lions. In a voice edged with inner chagrin, he offers a
portrait of the American West what we'll not soon forget,
offering us the observations of a man who left the urban
world behind to think about the natural world and the myths
buried therein.
"Edward Abbey is one of our foremost Western essayist
and novelists. A militant conservationist, he has attracted a
large following -- not only within the ranks of Sierra Club
enthusiasts and dedicated backpackers, but also among
armchair appreciators of good writing. What always made his
work doubly interesting is the sense of a true maverick
spirit at large, within it -- a kind of spirit not imitable,
limited only to the highest class of literary outlaws."
-- The Denver Post
Softcover.
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