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Down the River Paperback - 1991

by Edward Abbey

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Down the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free, and the grandeur of nature gives rise to meditations on everything from the life of Henry David Thoreau to the militarization of the open range. At the same time, it is an impassioned condemnation of what is being done to our natural heritage in the name of progress, profit, and security. Filled with fiery dawns, wild and shining rivers, and radiant sandstone canyons, it is charged as well with heartfelt, rampageous rage at human greed, blindness, and folly. It is, in short, Edward Abbey at his best, where and when we need him most.

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  • Title Down the River
  • Author Edward Abbey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York
  • Publication date 1991-01-30
  • ISBN 9780452265639 / 0452265630
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (20.22 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Voyages and travels, Rivers
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90007910
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Edward Abbey, 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 Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, and The Journey Home. In 1989, at the age of sixty-two, Edward Abbey died in Oracle, Arizona.
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