Down the River by Abbey, Edward

Down the River (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780452265639)

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Format: Paperback
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Down the River by Abbey, Edward

Down the River

$17.00
Down the River by Abbey, Edward

Down the River

$17.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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Down the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free, and the grandeur of nature gives rise to meditations on everything from the life of Henry David Thoreau to the militarization of the open range. At the same time, it is an impassioned condemnation of what is being done to our natural heritage in the name of progress, profit, and security. Filled with fiery dawns, wild and shining rivers, and radiant sandstone canyons, it is charged as well with heartfelt, rampageous rage at human greed, blindness, and folly. It is, in short, Edward Abbey at his best, where and when we need him most.

Author: Edward Abbey
ISBN-10: 0452265630
ISBN-13: 9780452265639
Publisher: Plume Books
Language: English
Published: 01/30/1991
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.30w x 0.60d
By Edward Abbey
By Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey, a self-proclaimed "agrarian anarchist," was hailed as the "Thoreau of the American West." Known nationally as a champion of the individual and one of this country's foremost defenders of the natural environment, he was the author of twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, and The Journey Home. In 1989, at the age of sixty-two, Edward Abbey died in Oracle, Arizona.

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