Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey · Audiobook preview

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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Authored by Edward Abbey
Narrated by Michael Kramer

0:00 Intro
0:03 Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
0:39 Author’s Introduction
8:21 The First Morning
24:20 Solitaire
39:50 The Serpents of Paradise
58:17 Cliffrose and Bayonets
1:09:47 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah. This is a rare view of a quest to experience nature in its purest form-the silence, the struggle, the overwhelming beauty. But this is also the gripping, anguished cry of a man of character who challenges the growing exploitation of the wilderness by oil and mining interests, as well as by the tourist industry.Abbey's observations and challenges remain as relevant now as the day he wrote them. Today, Desert Solitaire asks if any of our incalculable natural treasures can be saved before the bulldozers strike again.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania, and educated at the University of New Mexico and the University of Edinburgh. His many books include The Monkey Wrench Gang, Brave Cowboy, The Fool's Progress, and Down the River.

Audiobook veteran Michael Kramer has recorded more than two hundred audiobooks for trade publishers and many more for the Library of Congress Talking Books program. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner and an Audie Award nominee, he earned a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award for his reading of Savages by Don Winslow.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: December 19, 2011
ISBN: 9781452675763
Duration: 11 hr, 32 min
Genres: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Nature / Essays, Nature / General, Nature / Natural Resources