Environmental Classic
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Publication: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition.
Notes: Abbey's nature writing classic, a memoir of his time as a ranger in Arches National Park in the 1950
"Since you cannot get the desert into a book any more than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his nets, I have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as medium than as material. Not imitation but evocation has been the goal."
xvi, 269, [3:blank] pages. Illustrated by Peter Parnall.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A near fine to fine copy in a very attractive dust jacket with a couple of short closed tears and a bit of loss at the corners. The spine has browned very slightly.
Item No: #366087
Price: $600