The Journey Home

ABBEY,E

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Author
ABBEY,E
Publish Date
01/01/1991
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
PENGUIN
Subtitle
Some Words in the Defense of the American West
Number of Pages
256
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0452265622
ISBN-13
9780452265622
SKU
9780452265622

Description

The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that 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.

Abbey, our foremost “ecological philosopher,” has a voice like no other. He can be wildly funny, ferociously acerbic, and unexpectedly moving as he ardently champions our natural wilderness and castigates those who would ravish it for the perverse pleasure of profit.