num_pages: 303
description: Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, the noted author's most enduring nonfiction work, is an account of Abbey's seasons as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah. Abbey reflects on the nature of the Colorado Plateau desert, on the condition of our remaining wilderness, and on the future of a civilization that cannot reconcile itself to living in the natural world. He also recounts adventures with scorpions and snakes, obstinate tourists and entrenched bureaucrats, and, most powerful of all, with his own mortality. Abbey's account of getting stranded in a rock pool down a side branch of the Grand Canyon is at once hilarious and terrifying.
language: English
title: Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
titlecomplete: Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
genres: Adventure, Classics, Nature, Outdoors, Philosophy, Travel, Environment, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 48260
places: Moab, Utah, Utah, Arches National Park, Utah
publisher: Ballantine Books