{"product_id":"desert-solitaire-edward-abbey-9780345326492","title":"Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.\"--Edwin Way Teale, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is not primarily a book about the desert,\" writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. \"In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. But the desertis a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite. If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument. What I have tried to do then is something a bit different. Since you cannot get the desert into a book any more than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his nets, I have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as medium than as material. Not imitation but evocation has been the goal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Abbey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0345326490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345326492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.86h x 4.23w x 0.99d","brand":"Edward Abbey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053297201407,"sku":"9780345326492","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce25343b-497c-466b-9f10-2d9afa008695.jpg?v=1685023561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/desert-solitaire-edward-abbey-9780345326492","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}