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Loading... Abbey's Road (original 1979; edition 1991)by Edward Abbey
Work InformationAbbey's Road by Edward Abbey (1979)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Abbey has often been called sexist, racist, and some other not so nice names, many of them justifiable at least in part. It is quite true that very little of Abbey's work would fit into the description of politically correct. This book is no exception. And like most of his other books, if you are willing to overlook those foibles, and let the author's voice speak for itself, look past those things that irritate or annoy you, there will be plenty of gold to make the book worth reading. Abbey writes about the American west, but not the old west of cowboys and Indians. This is the new west, the brutalized west, the west that has been altered, in some cases irrevocably, by humans. In this book, he also includes descriptions of Australia, and, as is often the case, Mexico. Abbey, as usual, demonstrates for us an odd mix of elitist anti-elitism, intellectual anti-intellectualism, and libertarian socialism. Just when you think you've got a handle on him, he surprises you by turning the next corner a different direction. This book, although not his finest work, is definitely worth a look. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"The natural world, as we call it, has already become remote, out of reach, mysterious, in the minds of urban and suburban Americans. They see the wilderness disappearing, slipping away, receding into an inaccessible past. But they are mistaken. That world can still be rescued... that is my main excuse for this book."--Edward Abbey You are about to visit some of the most exciting places on earth. Not the sort of excitement that makes morning headlines or the nightly news. Instead it is the excitement that comes from experiencing the natural world as it always has been and should be, and seeing human beings living in tune with its subtlest rhythms. In Australian cattle country and in the primitive outback. On a desert island off Mexico and in the Sierra Madres. On the Rio Grande and in the great Southwest. On Lake Powell in Utah and in the living American desert. It is adventure. It is enlightenment. It is vintage Abbey. "I have been along a few of Mr. Abbey's roads. He sees much more than I did. Indeed, reading him is often better than being there was."--John Leonard, author of Reading for My Life No library descriptions found. |
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