Desert Cabal (eBook)

A New Season in the Wilderness

Amy Irvine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Torrey House Press (Verlag)
978-1-937226-96-1 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A griefstricken, hearthopeful, soul song to the American Desert."e;PAM HOUSTON, author of Deep CreekAs Ed Abbey's Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebelrousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is datedoffensive, evenbetween the covers of Abbey's environmental classic. Irvine names and questions the "e;lone male"e; narrativewhite and privileged as it isthat still has its boots planted firmly at the center of today's wilderness movement, even as she celebrates the lens through which Abbey taught so many to love the wild remains of the nation. From Abbey's quiet notion of solitude to Irvine's roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous. AMY IRVINE is a sixthgeneration Utahn and longtime public lands activist. Her work has been published in Orion, Pacific Standard, High Desert Journal, Climbing, Triquarterly, and other publications. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and Colorado Book Award. Her essay "e;Spectral Light,"e; which appeared in Orion and The Best American Science and Nature Writing, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism, and her recent essay, "e;Conflagrations: Motherhood, Madness and a Planet on Fire"e; appeared among the 2017 Best American Essays' list of Notables. Irvine teaches in the Mountainview LowResidency MFA Program of Southern New Hampshire Universityin the White Mountains of New England. She lives and writes off the grid in southwest Colorado, just spitting distance from her Utah homeland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: abbey's country • Arches National Park • bears ears intertribal coalition • bears ears national monument • desert solitaire • Edward Abbey • environmental conservation literature • essays on the american west • expanding the environmental conversation • expanding the literary canon • female rock climbers • feminist critique of western literature • feminist response to edward abbey • Grand Staircase Escalante • monuments for all • Pam Houston • redrock country • Terry Tempest Williams • the monkeywrench gang • Utah Desert • utah redrock • western literature by women • women in the outdoors
• ISBN-10: 1-937226-96-4 / 1937226964
• ISBN-13: 978-1-937226-96-1 / 9781937226961