All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
David Gessner
Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West.
These two great westerners had very different ideas about what it meant to love the land and try to care for it, and they did so in distinctly different styles. Boozy, lustful, ... Read more
In a region beset by droughts and fires, by fracking and drilling, and by an ever-growing population that seems to be in the process of loving the West to death, Gessner asks: how might these two farseeing environmental thinkers have responded to the crisis?
Gessner takes us on an inspiring, entertaining journey as he renews his own commitment to cultivating a meaningful relationship with the wild, confronting American overconsumption, and fighting environmental injustice—all while reawakening the thrill of the words of his two great heroes.
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Reviews for All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
Nick Romeo - Christian Science Monitor "[B]ringing [Abbey and Stegner] together . . . was a stroke of genius."
Bill Streever - Dallas Morning News "If Stegner and Abbey are like rivers, then Gessner is ... Read more