![]() ![]() Not imitation but evocation has been the goal. Since you cannot get the desert into a book any more than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his nets, I have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as medium than as material. What I have tried to do then is something a bit different. ![]() ![]() Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument. If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite. But the desertis a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. “In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. government has begun developing Abbey’s beloved park beyond recognition, he’s now publishing his experiences in that area in hopes of accurately reflecting the beauty of the wilderness and calling out the. “This is not primarily a book about the desert,” writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. Desert Solitaire is Edward Abbey ’s memoir of a summer spent in 1956, 10 years prior to writing the book, as a park ranger in Arches National Monument near Moab, Utah. a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.”-Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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