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5.0
Disclaimer: I am fueled by a love for Edward Abbey's words.
Much of Abbey's Road is related to travel, his time spent in places--other places, temporary home, road trips and river trips. The people come and go--bit players--but central to each vignette is always Mr. Abbey himself. His time spent in Australia is quite fascinating, there's much of Mexico, and rivers and travel. He waxes both political and poetical, with pointed arguments in both directions.
Truly, he writes on a variety of topics--often tied nicely with his anarchy and activism, conservation environmentalism. He's scruffy and irreverent, and usually naked. He is a druid in a worn-out ranger uniform, a bearded bard of the desert, a staunch defender of not only the wild but the necessary IDEAL of the wild.
These essays are both diverse and linked. Funny and touching and pseudo-philosophizing. Nothing off-limits to Mr. Abbey. Read him and be made whole.
Much of Abbey's Road is related to travel, his time spent in places--other places, temporary home, road trips and river trips. The people come and go--bit players--but central to each vignette is always Mr. Abbey himself. His time spent in Australia is quite fascinating, there's much of Mexico, and rivers and travel. He waxes both political and poetical, with pointed arguments in both directions.
Truly, he writes on a variety of topics--often tied nicely with his anarchy and activism, conservation environmentalism. He's scruffy and irreverent, and usually naked. He is a druid in a worn-out ranger uniform, a bearded bard of the desert, a staunch defender of not only the wild but the necessary IDEAL of the wild.
These essays are both diverse and linked. Funny and touching and pseudo-philosophizing. Nothing off-limits to Mr. Abbey. Read him and be made whole.
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