Excerpts From Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

Arranged by Chapter:

• Author's Introduction
• The First Morning
• Solitaire
• The Serpents of Paradise
• Cliffrose and Bayonets
• Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks
• Rocks
• Cowboys and Indians
• Cowboys and Indians, Part II
• Water
• The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud
• The Moon-Eyed Horse
• Down the River
• Havasu
• The Dead Man at Grandview Point
• Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert
• Episodes and Visions
• Terra Incognita: Into the Maze
• Bedrock and Paradox

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