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Main Title Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness /
Author Abbey, Edward,
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Parnall, Peter.
Publisher McGraw-Hill Book Company,
Year Published 1968
OCLC Number 00246148
Subjects Novelists, American--20th century--Biography ; Environmentalists--United States--Biography ; Park rangers--United States--Biography ; Desert biology--Utah--Arches National Park ; Arches National Park (Utah)
Additional Subjects Abbey, Edward,--1927-1989
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EOAM  PS3551.B2Z5 1968 Sustainability Collection Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO 08/22/2008
Edition {1st ed.}.
Collation xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Notes
Author's introduction -- The first morning -- Solitaire -- The serpents of paradise -- Cliffrose and bayonets -- Polemic: Industrial tourism and the national parks -- Rocks -- Cowboys and indians -- Cowboys and indians Part II -- Water -- The heat of noon: Rock and tree and cloud -- The moon-eyed horse -- Down the river -- Havasu -- The dead man at Grandview Point -- Tukuhnikivats, the island in the desert -- Episodes and visions -- Terra incognita: Into the maze -- Bedrock and paradox.