Abbey's Road
by Abbey, Edward
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0525482334
- ISBN 13
- 9780525482338
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Plume Books, 1979. Trade paperback. Like New. 7x1x5. Previous owner name. The first part of Abbey's Road is given to a walkabout in the outback of Australia, whose scattered human settlements remind Abbey of towns in the American West, "although not so blatantly ugly." Having ignored good advice not to stray too far afield in that waterless place and lived to tell the tale, Abbey turns later in the book to other desert landscapes (islands in the Gulf of California, remote corners of the Grand Canyon, and the like) before delivering a series of trademark yawps against the forces that would just as soon bulldoze such places as protect them. Along the way Abbey recalls his work as a seasonal park ranger (which yielded his incomparable memoir, Desert Solitaire) and fire lookout, offers a few tongue-in-cheek words in defense of rednecks, and muses on the effects of hallucinogenic drugs and the virtues of his "slapstick, slapdash, sex-crazed manner"--all good and generally good-natured pieces.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010026314
- Title
- Abbey's Road
- Author
- Abbey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0525482334
- ISBN 13
- 9780525482338
- Publisher
- Plume Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 7x1x5
- Keywords
- environment, environmentalism, natural history, southwest
- X weight
- 14 oz
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