The Journey Home : Some Words in the Defense of the American West

Edward Abbey
Penguin Publishing Group
 9780452265622
0-452-26562-2

The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs,.

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and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that well not soon forget, offering us the observations of a man who left the urban world behind to think about the natural world and the myths buried therein. Abbey, our foremost ecological philosopher, has a voice like no other. He can be wildly funny, ferociously acerbic, and unexpectedly moving as he ardently champions our natural wilderness and castigates those who would ravish it for the perverse pleasure of profit.