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Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)

by E. Abbey (Author)
4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.; Reprint edition (12 Oct 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0345326490
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345326492
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 444,763 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A season in the wilderness it is, 29 Nov 2000
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This review is from: Desert Solitaire (Paperback)
Curiously enough, I found the trail that led me to this exceptional book in a book by French author Yves Berger on the landscape of the American Southwest. Desert Solitaire is something special, though possibly a book with a limited audience made of people who have travelled the Southwest and taken it to their souls. It is a sort of diary of the period Abbey spent as a park ranger in the Arches National Park in Utah. If you're looking for an engrossing plot, well, you won't find it. But if you've been to that area of the world and loved the closeness and vastness of sky and cloud, the colors of the stone, the smell of dust and brush, you will love and treasure this book. And it's all there in the title: the desert and the man.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A loving portrait of the redrock canyons of Utah, 5 Feb 1999
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If you have ever gone to a National Park, and been angered by roads that lead to every attraction, and tourists who don't leave their cars, Edward Abbey agrees with you. He agrees very strongly with you. Here he tells stories from his time in the deserts of Utah and Arizona. His description of Glen Canyon, before it was flooded to create Lake Powell, is the best I have ever read of a place. This is a great, almost poetic description of a place, the desert, that Abbey held a special love for. It is hard to read this book and not bring away your own love of the canyons and mesas, arches and dunes, of the southwestern desert.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Deserts are not dull, 28 Nov 2000
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To many the desert is a dull, lifeless place. Not to Abbey. In equal measures poetic and polemic, Abbey's passion for his subject shines through, bringing the desert to life. Not only does he describe what it looks like, but more importantly, what it *feels* like. Desert Solitaire is little short of a masterpiece.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Under a blood red sky
The land of dust..of sagebrush and mesas...of prickly pear and diamondbacks found its most eloquent champion in Edward Abbey. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable but do not follow his example
This is a totally enjoyable and recommended book. My only problem is that the author as a National Park System ranger does so many dangerous things that cannot be condoned... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A man who knows how to experience nature
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5.0 out of 5 stars A pivotal book that changed the way I view the desert
Edward Abbey introduced me to the desert via this book. I was never aware of the inherent beauty of emptiness, the fullness of the barren landscape, and the passion that can be... Read more
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Are you one of those city-people? Working all day in buildings surrounded by steel and stone? Read this book and you wish to be in that wilderness. Read more
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The American experience has given to the world two priceless things above all: the fullest development of the idea of the worth and dignity of the individual life, and love and... Read more
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This is the best book I have ever read. This author far exceeds any in explaining the feelings that are felt through the love of nature and the frustration with society today... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars The most compelling book on the Red Rock Desert ever
I originally read the book in the early 1980's and continually reread it to refresh my memories of the most compelling, stark, unforgiving, beautiful, lonely, introspective,... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book is a GEM!
Edward Abbey IS the voice crying in and for the wilderness.
This book makes my whole being ache with emotion. For the wilderness that is being tamed without consent. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A celebration of beauty, a discourse against ignorance
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