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6%OFFDavid Gessner - All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West - 9780393352375 - V9780393352375
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All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

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Description for All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West Paperback. An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it. Num Pages: 368 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393352375
SKU
V9780393352375
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About David Gessner
David Gessner is the award-winning author of Return of the Osprey, My Green Manifesto, The Tarball Chronicles, and other books. He currently lives and teaches in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Reviews for All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
"[An] artful combination of nature writing, biography, literary criticism, and cultural history. . . . Gessner’s book sands away the varnish of legend."
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

Goodreads reviews for All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West


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