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Description
A collection of excerpts from the private journals of an eccentric environmentalist features his notes, philosophies, and character sketches, chronicling his lifelong struggle to preserve the Southwestern wilderness. 20,000 first printing.
First Sentence
Road map: After graduating from high school at Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1945, and facing induction into the wartime military on his eighteenth birthday some eight months hence, "Ned" (as the Abbey clan knew him) embarked on a solo tour of the American Southwest, traveling by foot, bus, thumb, and "hopped" freight train.
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Authors & Contributors
- Edward Abbey (Author)
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