Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Edward Abbey
Born and raised in rural Appalachian Pennsylvania, Edward Abbey (1927-89) began his lifelong love affair with the Southwest as an underg...
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Edward Abbey's nickname might just as well have been "the Monkey Wrench" instead of "Cactus Ed." Abbey breathed new life into the Luddites' notorious sabotage of technology--their tossing wrenches int...
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Edward Abbey was one of the most important and most explicitly political American nature writers of the second half of the twentieth century. He, however, disliked the phrase "nature writing"; he pref...
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In the following essay, Burrows applies Abbey's background in philosophy to his treatise Desert Solitaire.
Desert Solitaire (1968), Edward Abbey's most important piece of exposition, ...
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In the following essay, Bryant examines the complex structure of Desert Solitaire.
Edward Abbey was often at pains to present himself as a blunt, straightforward, uncomplicated, unsophisticated wri...
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Edward Abbey
Critical Essay by Russell Burrows
