Cactus Country

Time-Life American Wilderness Series

by Edward Abbey

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Genres: Nature, Nonfiction, Photography, Reference, History

184 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1973

About the author

Edward Paul Abbey (1927–1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views.

Abbey attended college in New Mexico and then worked as a park ranger and fire lookout for the National Park Service in the Southwest. It was during this time that he developed the relationship with the area’s environment that influenced his writing. During his service, he was in close proximity to the ruins of ancient Native American cultures and saw the expansion and destruction of modern civilization.

His love for nature and extreme distrust of the industrial world influenced much of his work and helped garner a cult following.

Abbey died on March 14, 1989, due to complications from surgery. He was buried as he had requested: in a sleeping bag—no embalming fluid, no casket. His body was secretly interred in an unmarked grave in southern Arizona.

Reviews

[Autumn Kearney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cactus Country: The American Wilderness/Time-Life Books. Both the text and the photographs are spectacular. You can’t go wrong with Time-Life books.

[Ted Manahan · Rating 5 out of 5]

great pictures, and interesting stories about Edward Abbey's rambles in the desert. A must for desert lovers and Abbey fans (I am both.)

[Dee Renee Chesnut · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cactus Country is part of the American Wilderness series by Time-Life books, when it was sold by subscription in 1973. I have always enjoyed the pictures, and now I take the time to enjoy the text written by Edward Abbey.

I am not a naturalist: what I hope to evoke through words here is the way things feel on stormy desert afternoons, the exact shade of color in shadows on the warm rock, the brightness of October, the rust and silence and echoes of human history along dusty desert roads, the fragrance of burning mesquite, and a few other simple, ordinary, inexplicable things like that.

i recommend this for all readers.

[Cws]

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[Brett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Non-fiction,Geography

[Eileen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is for Arizona desert rats, which I think I have become.

[H. Gibson · Rating 4 out of 5]

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An amazing book with paintworthy photogaphy.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous and packed with great information.

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute gem.

[David Fandel]

Time-Life American Wilderness Series