ARGONAUT BOOKS

'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of WildIn this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. Reviews 'His masterpiece. Despite its stated purpose as a eulogy to a lost world, it seems hardly to have aged at all. Part of the book's staying power resides in the synthesis Abbey created between the American desert - the red-rock canyons, "Abbey's country" - and the beautiful, hard-chiselled prose, as rough ...Read More