![]() ![]() He experiences both sides of his new home its incredible beauty and its promise of liberation, but also its isolating, cruel side, at one point discovering a dead tourist at an isolated area of the Grand Canyon. His summers become spirit quests, taking him in search of wild horses and Ancient Puebloan petroglyphs, up mountains and across tribal lands, and down the Glen Canyon by river. Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand sage. In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. 'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild ![]()
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