A die-hard Edward Abbey reader traces the author’s steps on a camping trip through eastern Utah.
Though Abbey considered himself primarily a fiction writer —he published three novels before Desert Solitaire, another five after —this was the book that made him famous. It sold almost two million copies (and counting), linking his name with all things parched, dusty, cracked, and prickly. Western environmentalists from Robert Redford to Terry Tempest Williams have deemed it a touchstone, and three generations of backpackers have carried it alongside their ChapStick and gorp.
I first encountered the essays at college in Colorado, and I have to admit, I was initially turned off. Not because of the writing itself so much as the people it attracted: young students (almost always men) reciting from memory their bearded hero’s hikes through canyons and railing against the roads and dams. Their extreme devotion was a bit much for me.
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