![]() ![]() ![]() I never wanted to be anything but a writer, period.’ First published in 1968 to ‘a few brief but not hostile notices,’ Desert Solitaire quietly sold out of its first printing but eventually developed a loyal enough following in paperback to earn Abbey the ‘nature writer’ label he claims never to have wanted. ‘But I did not mean to be mistaken for a nature writer. ![]() ‘I confess to being a nature lover,’ admits Abbey more than thirty years after his sojourn in the wilderness. In it he tells of his stint as a park ranger at Arches National Monument, of his love for the natural beauty that surrounded him, and of his distaste for the modernizing improvements designed to increase visitation to the park. Edward Abbey's account of two summers spent in southeastern Utah's canyonlands is surely one of the most enduring works of contemporary American nature writing. In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Desert Solitaire, the University of Arizona Press is pleased to publish a new edition featuring a new introduction by the author, his definitive corrections to the text, and new illustrations commissioned exclusively for this volume. "At last, one of the most popular books on the American West is available once again in hardcover. ![]()
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