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
Sales rank:	1,008,368
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

The author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang is unchallenged among radicals of all ages. Edward Abbey, an American icon, called "the original fly in the ointment" by Tom McGuane, today has roads and a town named after him.

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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