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Edward Abbey describes THE JOURNEY HOME as "...partly personal history, one man's odyssey in search of Ithaca.Like so many others in this century I found myself a displaced person shortly after birth and have been looking half of my life for a place to take my stand.Now that I think I've found it, I must defend it.My home is the American West, and this book is written in its defense."

"He offers a portrait of the West that we'll not soon forget. He gives us the observations of a man who left the urban world to think about the natural world and the myths buried therein." (Publisher's Source) ... Read more

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A book of Western photography dedicated to Western writers
Here are almost 100 black and white photographs by Marc Gaede taken 1986-1989 in several Western states, chiefly Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. They are mostly landscapes, and while many are striking images, they're not intended as calendar art. Instead, they are a visual record of mountains, plains, and river valleys with literary and historical associations. There are the sites of massacres and battles: Little Big Horn, Wounded Knee, Sand River, Mountain Meadows, and the Chief Joseph Battlefield. And there are geographical points of reference for anyone who knows the West -- the headwaters of the Missouri River, the Black Hills, the Bighorns, Yellowstone River, the Big Blackfoot River, the Wind River, the Snake River, Independence Rock.

There is very little sign of humans crossing or inhabiting these landscapes. The exceptions are historical traces: petroglyphs of Native Americans, the marks of wagon wheels along the Oregon Trail, an abandoned church on open prairie, an inscription in rock left by "Wm Clark" in 1806.

The book honors Montana novelist A. B. Guthrie, who provides an essay with quotations from several of his books. There's also a brief tribute from Edward Abbey and a foreword by Charles Bowden. The book includes a sequence of photographs of other writers associated with the West: Wallace Stegner, Norman Maclean, Ivan Doig, Thomas McGuane, and James Welch. In an afterword, the photographer, Marc Gaede, tells a hair-raising and finally hilarious story of nearly losing A.B. Guthrie on a misadventure along the Marias River in northern Montana.

This is a great companion volume for readers of Montana literature and history. It portrays the natural environment that has inspired its best loved authors. And in many ways, it captures the land as Lewis and Clark would have seen it almost 200 years ago. For accounts of Chief Joseph and the Mountain Meadow Massacre in Utah, read Timothy Egan's "Lasso the Wind." Another book with many points of connection is "The Big Sky Reader." ... Read more

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In this beautiful book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico.

No passports are needed, no examinations to undergo, no special equipment required, no experience necessary. A journey to Abbey's wilderness is the most free, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures.

"Abbey has always spoken with special authenticity and confidence...like Thoreau, he is at times ornery and subversive, also undeterred by the tastemakers of his own day--a man still with the bark on." --Edward Hoagland ... Read more

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Author Edward Paul Abbey was investigated by the FBI for sedition. While attending school in Pennsylvania, he publicly proposed destruction of draft cards. Abbey served in the U.S. military from 1945 to1947. A Loyalty of Government Employee investigation was conducted while Abbey worked for the National Forrest Service. A huge 148 pages!! ... Read more

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This is a personal odyssey by Edward Abbey, including the familiar territory of the Rio Grande in Texas and Canyonlands National Park and Lake Powell, Utah, also he takes us to varied places like Scotland, the interior of Australia, and the Sierra Madre and Isla de la Sombra in Mexico. ... Read more

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Ten selections taken from Desert Solitaire, The Journey Home, Abbey's Road, and Down the River convey Abbey's stance against the development of the American West and the destruction of its wilderness. 2 cassettes. ... Read more

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Wow!I've read all of Abbey's books or I thought I did.
Listening to Ed Abbey read selections from Desert Solitaire, The Journey Home, Abbey's Road, and Down the River puts his writings in a whole new perspective.I found myself going back and rereading these selections after listening to the tapes.It is as though I never really read them in the first place.Highly recommended if you can find a copy.Don't understand why they are so hard to find.From the back cover, "Vintage Abbey.If I could have only one Abbey work on a desert island, I might choose this."

Freedom and Wilderness
A MUST Abbey "listen."Hear Cactus Ed himself.If you love wilderness and need a little jolt of Abbeyism, this is it.I use it as a class assignment, not only for its literary quality but for its passion for wild places.American Wilderness:Love it or leave it alone.

get it if you can
a remarkable collection, and worth every penny (...) i paid for them new. ed's voice never gets tiresome, especially reading some of his own best works.

Excellent Tape, if you can find it
Here is a wonderful collection of some of Abbey's best essays narrated by the old curmudgeon himself. ... Read more

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Essential Wildland Text
This book is a real and raw account of the fight to protect the remaining wild American west. Wolke is a modern-day Thoreau, writing from the confines of the Sublette County Jail in Wyoming. The question is why aren't you in here?

A critically important look at how public lands are managed.
Anyone, anywhere who cares about our Western public lands should read this title. From the welfare ranchers to Big Timber, Big Oil and industrialists in general, all the rape-and-scrapers take their due hits in Wolke's book.We need more guys like Howie Wolke, not fewer.

An insightful look at National Forest Management
This book was written shortly after my wife and I spent 3 days in the wilderness with Howe. His knowledge of wild things and passion for it's preservation were evident during this time. Howe is well known in wilderness preservation circles; not to the liking of the government run U S Fish and Wildlife Service and U S Dept. of Agriculture. Howe is the friend of Wilderness and you will be awakened to what is really going on in our National Forests. ... Read more