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I wanted to like this a lot more than I was able to. Abbey includes some beautifully poetic writing about the desert landscape at times and if that remained the central focus of the book, it would be fantastic; however, the other focus of Desert Solitaire is Abbey himself and, at least based on the way he presents himself here, I just don't like Edward Abbey. He's pompous, both racist and sexist, hypocritical, and a rabbit murderer. He's not the kind of company I want to keep.
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I have never read a more compelling personal account of one person's search for self and the collective self in the stark beauty of the American Southwest. Upon reading it, I became aware that living in a trailer in the middle of nowhere with the sky and ground your closest neighbors might sound a little crazy, but some guy wrote a book about it so it must be ok in the long run (thus, maybe I'm not so crazy after all). Only true connoisseurs of the outdoors, particularly desert regions, are like
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This was THE book that created the environmentalist in me!
Feb 07, 2008
Samantha Gloffke
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