Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Audiobook)

from debnance

First read: Desert Solitaire is one of those books that I've seen a million times---on other people's bookshelves, at gift shops in national parks, at library sales---but that I've never gotten around to buying or reading. When it arrived in an armchair travel bookbox and after I recently read Th...

from Mrs.Stansbury

If you have ever read "Walden Pond" by Throeau you need to read this book. Desert Solitaire celebrates nature in a modern world, shares stories of man communing with nature as an equal, and opens the readers eyes to environmental issues. Nature lovers will fall in love with this book.

from rudelywakened

I loved this book as young man back in the 70's. I sought my adventures out of doors - many in places that would not qualify as "wilderness" by any definition. Arches National Monument as Abbey found it was not wilderness, either. It was adequately developed to permit access to the slightly adven...

from Sandydog1

The curmudgeonly conservationist and self-proclaimed "eartheist" writes about degradation of national parks, lyrical and sometimes deadly times in the Utah desert and great descriptions of some of the eccentric desert folk.

from ImperfectCJ

Shortly after my daughter was born, my in-laws came to visit us in California. While there, they drove to Yosemite National Park for a few days. When they got back, my spouse asked them what they'd seen while they were there. "Everything," his dad replied. What they meant, of course, was everythi...