This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book.
He died in March 1989..
He is also the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey\'s Road , and The Journey Home , among others.
He wrote Desert Solitaire while working as a Park Ranger in Utah.
He earned graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico.
About the Author: Edward Abbey was born in 1927 in Pennsylvania.
When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided.
A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what\'s happening in the author\'s life at the time.
The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey\'s life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62.
It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed\'s life directly, in his own words.
This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book
