Down the River
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 ra…
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- ISBN: 978-0-452-26563-9
- EAN: 9780452265639
- Produktnummer: 9143771
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.2 cm 225 g
- Gewicht: 225
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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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