Desert Solitaire is Edward Abbey’s personal history of his summers as a park ranger in what is now called Arches National Park in Utah. The book is worth reading if only for Abbey’s bright language and vivid descriptions of the US Southwest. But Abbey, for all his artistry, was an atheist who could see nothing beyond the surface of the beauty he…
Desert Solitaire is Edward Abbey’s personal history of his summers as a park ranger in what is now called Arches National Park in Utah. The book is worth reading if only for Abbey’s bright language and vivid descriptions of the US Southwest. But Abbey, for all his artistry, was an atheist who could see nothing beyond the surface of the beauty he…
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