{"product_id":"the-journey-home-isbn-9780452265622","title":"The Journey Home","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Journey Home \u003c\/i\u003eranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that we’ll not soon forget, offering us the observations of a man who left the urban world behind to think about the natural world and the myths buried therein.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Abbey, our foremost “ecological philosopher,” has a voice like no other. He can be wildly funny, ferociously acerbic, and unexpectedly moving as he ardently champions our natural wilderness and castigates those who would ravish it for the perverse pleasure of profit.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Hallelujah on the Bum\u003cbr\u003e2 The Great American Desert\u003cbr\u003e3 Disorder and Early Sorrow\u003cbr\u003e4 Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge\u003cbr\u003e5 Snow Canyon\u003cbr\u003e6 Desert Places\u003cbr\u003e7 Death Valley\u003cbr\u003e8 Come On In\u003cbr\u003e9 Manhattan Twilight, Hoboken Night\u003cbr\u003e10 God's Plan for the State of Utah: A Revelation\u003cbr\u003e11 The Great Globe Arizona Wild Pig and Varmint Hunt\u003cbr\u003e12 Telluride Blue–A Hatchet Job\u003cbr\u003e13 Let Us Now Praise Mountain Lions\u003cbr\u003e14 Return to Yosemite: Tree Fuzz vs. Freaks\u003cbr\u003e15 The BLOB Comes to Arizona\u003cbr\u003e16 The Second Rape of the West\u003cbr\u003e17 Down the River with Major Powell\u003cbr\u003e18 Walking\u003cbr\u003e19 The Crooked Wood\u003cbr\u003e20 Mountain Music\u003cbr\u003e21 Shadows from the Big Woods\u003cbr\u003e22 Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom\u003cbr\u003e23 Dust: A Movie\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“Abbey’s unique prose voice… is the voice of a full-blooded man airing his passions… alternately misanthropic and sentimental, enraged and hilarious.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The man, quite simply, is a master.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A record as important and lovely as Muir’s or Thoreau’s.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “One of our foremost Western essayists and novelists. A militant conservationist, he has attracted a large following—not only within the ranks of Sierra Club enthusiasts and backpackers, but also among armchair appreciators of good writing. What always made his work doubly interesting is the sense of a true maverick spirit at large—a kind of spirit not imitable, limited only to the highest class of literary outlaws.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Abbey is a gadfly with a stinger like a scorpion.”—\u003cb\u003eWallace Stegner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “In his own inimitable fashion, Abbey prevails among the scant handful of our best and brightest fresh-air scribes.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Abbey\u003c\/b\u003e, a self-proclaimed “agrarian anarchist,” was hailed as the “Thoreau of the American West.” Known nationally as a champion of the individual and one of this country’s foremost defenders of the natural environment, he was the author of twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eDesert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Journey Home. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 1989, at the age of sixty-two, Edward Abbey died in Oracle, Arizona.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303438897381,"sku":"NP9780452265622","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452265622.jpg?v=1767740013","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-journey-home-isbn-9780452265622","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}