The serpents of paradise : a reader

Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989, author.

Book 1995

From boyhood in Home, Pennsylvania, to his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989, this book offers - in Abbey's own words - the world of an American original. Whether writing fact or fiction, Abbey was always an autobiographer. Each of the thirty-five selections presented here, arranged chronologically by date of incident (not of publication), demonstrates that Abbey was passionately, insistently his own man. As poet-farmer Wendell Berry puts it: "He...

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ISBN:

9780805031324
0805031324

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xii, 400 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

"A John Macrae book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-398)

Contents:

1927-37: Stump Creek, West Virginia
Hallelujah on the bum
How it was
Drunk in the afternoon
Journal IV: November 10, 1951-Edinburgh, Scotland
From the fool's progress
From the brave cowboy
Author's introduction to desert solitaire
The first morning
The serpents of paradise
Polemic; industrial tourism anhd the national parks
Tukuhnikivats, the island in the desert
Appalachian pictures
Appalachia, good-bye
My life as a P.I.G., or the true adventures of smokey the cop
From black sun
1971-77: Henry in love-an interlude
The wooden shoe conspiracy
The raid at comb wash
Death Valley junk
Meeting the bear
Aravaipa Canyon
A Colorado River journal
From good news
Desert images
The damnation of a canyon
Gather at the river
River solitaire: a daybook
Free speech: the cowboy and his cow
Theory of anarchy
Eco-defense
Immigration and liberal taboos - A writer's credo
Postlude to The Fool's Progress

LCCN:

94044065

Control Number:

56847

Other Authors:

Macrae, John

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