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Often compared to Thoreau's Walden, Desert Solitaire is a powerful discussion of life's mysteries set against the stirring backdrop of the American southwestern wilderness.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0671695886\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780671695880\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Abbey, Edward, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Touchstone Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Touchstone Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 1990)","offer_id":45660148695237,"sku":"9780671695880","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780671695880.jpg?v=1768918630"},{"product_id":"desert-solitaire-a-season-in-the-wilderness","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. 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In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares -such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another.- Her vivid writings capture the landscape--from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas--as well as the rich variety of plant and animal life, and the few human beings who inhabit the land, including cattlemen, miners, and Paiute Indians. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original 1903 edition.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0812968522\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780812968521\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Austin, Mary, Hass, Robert\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Modern Library\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 2003)","offer_id":46081237090501,"sku":"9780812968521","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780812968521.jpg?v=1776044193"},{"product_id":"desert-oracle-volume-1-strange-true-tales-from-the-american-southwest","title":"Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave--its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs--becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the past five years, \u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle \u003c\/i\u003ehas existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time--and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations--\u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle \u003c\/i\u003ehas been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStraight out of Joshua Tree, California, \u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle \u003c\/i\u003eis \"The Voice of the Desert\" a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. \u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle\u003c\/i\u003e is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's \u003ci\u003eDesert Oracle \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1250800358\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781250800350\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Layne, Ken\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Dec 2021)","offer_id":46081468661957,"sku":"9781250800350","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781250800350.jpg?v=1776046353"},{"product_id":"red-passion-and-patience-in-the-desert","title":"Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert","description":"In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America's Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of \u003ci\u003eRefuge\u003c\/i\u003e, is one of the country's most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert's power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise-an animal that can \"teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience\" as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the civil war being waged in the West today over public and private uses of land-an issue that divides even her own family. With grace, humor, and compassionate intelligence, Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0375725180\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780375725180\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Williams, Terry Tempest\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2002)","offer_id":46099891814597,"sku":"9780375725180","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780375725180.jpg?v=1776646306"},{"product_id":"the-sonoran-desert-explorer-a-guide-to-natural-wonders-and-adventures","title":"The Sonoran Desert Explorer: A Guide to Natural Wonders and Adventures","description":"\u003cb\u003ePrepare to be dazzled by the incredibly biodiverse life thriving and surviving in this immense desert. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Say \"desert\" and many folks will picture sand, clouds of dust, a smattering of cactuses, and perhaps a tenacious reptile or scorpion fighting for their thirsty lives. 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