Desert Solitaire

Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages

English language

Published Jan. 12, 1985 by Ballantine Books.

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4 stars (6 reviews)

A book about Edward Abbey's life as a park ranger in the American Southwest in the 1950's.

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3 stars

Angry misanthrope musings on the wildness of Utah's national parks and monuments from before they paved access into Arches NP, lots I can agree with in his critiques of Industrial Tourism and appreciation of time in inhospitable nowhere. But it suffers from masculine adolescent tone and some filler essays.

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  • Modern fiction
  • Fiction
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  • Nature/Ecology
  • Essays
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