Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

by Edward Abbey

Overview

In this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805008203
Publisher:	Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/15/1984
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania. He received graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, and attended the University of Edinburgh. He worked for a time as a forest ranger and was a committed naturalist and a fierce environmentalist; such was his anger, eloquence, and action on the subject that he has become a heroic, almost mythic figure to a whole host of environmental groups and literally millions of readers. Abbey's career as a writer spanned four decades and encompassed a variety of genres, from essays to novels. One of his early successes was the novel The Brave Cowboy, which was made into the movie Lonely Are the Brave. His 1968 collection of essays, Desert Solitaire, became a necessary text for the new environmentalists, like the group 'Earth First,' and his rambunctious 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, a picaresque tale of environmental guerillas, which launched a national cult movement and sold over half-a-million copies. Other titles include The Journey Home, Fool's Progress, and the posthumously released Hayduke Lives!

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
1	A Walk in the Desert Hills	1
2	How It Was	51
3	Days and Nights in Old Pariah	69
4	Desert Images	77
5	The Damnation of a Canyon	95
6	A Colorado River Journal	105
7	On the High Edge of Texas	125
8	Down to the Sea of Cortez	137
9	The Ancient Dust	149
10	Gather at the River	163

Editorial Reviews

The Thoreau of the American West.” —Larry McMurtry

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