Confessions of a barbarian
Subtitle: selections from the journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989
By: original drawings by Edward Abbey ; edited and with an introduction by David Petersen.
Contributors: Petersen, David, 1946-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Abbey, Edward, 1927- -- Diaries; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries; Park rangers -- United States -- Diaries; Naturalists -- United States -- Diaries; Nature
Description: Edward Abbey was an anarchist, activist, philosopher, and the spiritual father of the environmental movement. He was also a passionate journal keeper, a man who filled page after page with notes, philosophical musings, character sketches, illustrations, musical notations, and drawings. His "scribbling," as he called it, began in 1948, when he served as a motorcycle MP in postwar Italy, and continued until his death in 1989, totaling twenty-one volumes. His journals are the closest thing to an Abbey autobiography we will ever have. They reveal his youthful philosophical ruminations about art, love, literature and anarchy; follow his wanderings through Europe and the Eastern States and finally his spiritual home, the American West; and chronicle his lifelong struggle to preserve the disappearing wilderness.--From publisher description.