With language as colorful as a Canyonlands sunset and a perspective as pointed
as a prickly pear, Cactus Ed captures the heat, mystery, and surprising bounty
of desert life. Desert Solitaire is a meditation on the stark landscapes of the
red-rock West, a passionate vote for wilderness, and a howling lament for the
commercialization of the American outback."A passionately felt, deeply poetic
book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling
adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power
and beauty."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEWEdward Abbey lived for three seasons in
the desert at Moab, Utah, and what