A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

Abbey, Edward

ISBN 10: 0312041470 / ISBN 13: 9780312041472

Published by St Martins Pr, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312041470
• ISBN 13: 9780312041472
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Rush, Andrew
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 12 ounces

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Synopsis

Essays address such diverse topics as New York City, politics, human perfectability, sex, literature, and the environment

About the Author

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania. He received graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, and attended the University of Edinburgh. He worked for a time as a forest ranger and was a committed naturalist and a fierce environmentalist; such was his anger, eloquence, and action on the subject that he has become a heroic, almost mythic figure to a whole host of environmental groups and literally millions of readers.

Abbey's career as a writer spanned four decades and encompassed a variety of genres, from essays to novels to this volume, which was completed two weeks before his death. One of his early successes was the novel The Brave Cowboy, which was made into the movie Lonely Are the Brave. His 1968 collection of essays, Desert Solitaire, became a necessary text for the new environmentalists, like the group 'Earth First,' and his rambunctious 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, a picaresque tale of environmental guerillas, which launched a national cult movement and sold over half-a-million copies. Other titles include The Journey Home, Fool's Progress, and the posthumously released Hayduke Lives!