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One life at a time, please / Edward Abbey.
Van Pelt Library PS3551.B2 Z47 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989.
- Abbey, Edward.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 225 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H. Holt, [1988]
- Summary:
- Warhorse, gadfly, storyteller, naturalist--there is no simple category to contain the vibrant prose voice of Edward Abbey. And this snappy collection of es says displays the author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey-Wrench Gang at the height of his curmudgeonry.
- Contents:
- Politics 7
- Free Speech: The Cowboy and His Cow 9
- Arizona: How Big is Big Enough? 20
- Theory of Anarchy 25
- Eco-Defense 29
- Blood Sport 33
- Immigration and Liberal Taboos 41
- Wild Horses 45
- Travel 49
- A San Francisco Journal 51
- Lake Powell by Houseboat 85
- River Solitaire: A Daybook 94
- River of No Return 107
- Forty Years as a Canyoneer 123
- Big Bend 127
- TV Show: Out There in the Rocks 142
- Round River Rendezvous: The Rio Grande 150
- Books and Art 159
- A Writer's Credo 161
- Mr Krutch 179
- The Remington Studio 194
- The Future of Sex: A Reaction to a Pair of Books-Brownmiller's Femininity and Steinem's Outrageous Acts 199
- Emerson 206
- Nature Love 219
- Sportsmen 221.
- Notes:
- "An Owl book".
- ISBN:
- 0805006028
- 0805006036
- OCLC:
- 15631570
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