{"product_id":"abbeys-road-9780452265646","title":"Abbey's Road","description":"\"The natural world, as we call it, has already become remote, out of reach, mysterious, in the minds of urban and suburban Americans. They see the wilderness disappearing, slipping away, receding into an inaccessible past. But they are mistaken. That world can still be rescued... that is my main excuse for this book.\"--\u003cb\u003eEdward Abbey\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You are about to visit some of the most exciting places on earth. Not the sort of excitement that makes morning headlines or the nightly news. Instead it is the excitement that comes from experiencing the natural world as it always has been and should be, and seeing human beings living in tune with its subtlest rhythms. In Australian cattle country and in the primitive outback. On a desert island off Mexico and in the Sierra Madres. On the Rio Grande and in the great Southwest. On Lake Powell in Utah and in the living American desert. It is adventure. It is enlightenment. It is vintage Abbey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I have been along a few of Mr. Abbey's roads. He sees much more than I did. Indeed, reading him is often better than being there was.\"--\u003cb\u003eJohn Leonard, author of \u003ci\u003eReading for My Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903534534930,"sku":"9780452265646","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d25bdf27-8d59-4fd8-adca-07c5370c9887.jpg?v=1738497082","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/abbeys-road-9780452265646","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}