Journey Home
by Abbey, Edward frey50
Published by : E. P. Dutton (New York) , 1977 Physical details: 242 p. ISBN:052513753x.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 800 - 899 | Book Cart | 813.54 Abb (Browse shelf) | Available | 48840 |
Introduction -- Hallelujah on the bum -- The great American desert -- Disorder and early sorrow -- Fire lookout: Numa Ridge -- Snow canyon -- Desert places -- Death Valley -- Come on in -- Manhattan twilight, Hoboken night -- God's plan for the state of Utah: a revelation -- The great Globe Arizona wild pig and varmint hunt -- Telluride blues: a hatchet job -- Let us now praise mountain lions -- Return to Yosemite: tree fuzz vs. freaks -- The BLOB comes to Arizona -- The second rape of the West -- Down the river with Major Powell -- Walking -- The crooked wood -- Mountain music -- Shaodws from the big woods -- Freedom and wilderness, wilderness and freedom -- Dust: a movie.
A collection of essays on the American West covers such issues as urban growth, the gentrification of the small-town West, and wilderness preservation.