| The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West Contributor(s): Abbey, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452265622 ISBN-13: 9780452265622 Publisher: Plume Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1991 Annotation: Long considered an underground classic, The Journey Home stands beside Desert Solitude as one of Abbey's most important works. In a voice edged eith chagrin, Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that readers will not soon forget, presenting the reflections and observations of a man who left the urban world behind in pursuit of the natural one and the myths buried therein. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 90045182 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.04" W x 8.38" (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |