Desert Solitaire
A Season in the Wilderness
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Engelsk
Rough, tough, combative . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book. Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review This is not primarily a book about the desert, writes Edward Abbey in his introduct...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af Desert Solitaire af Edward Abbey
Rough, tough, combative . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book. Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review 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. Not imitation but evocation has been the goal.
Detaljer
Forlag
Ballantine Books Inc.
ISBN
9780345326492
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
352
Udgivelsesdato
12-01-1985
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3338761
EAN nr.
9780345326492
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
105
Bredde (mm)
176
Længde (mm)
25
Vægt (g)
184
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