Edward Abbey (1927–1989)

Autore di Deserto solitario : una stagione nei territori selvaggi

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Edward Abbey was born January 29, 1927 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Home. After military service in Naples, Italy, from 1945-47, he enrolled in Indiana University of Pennsylvania for a year before traveling to the West. He fell in love with the desert Southwest and eventually mostra altro attended the University of New Mexico, where he obtained both graduate and post-graduate degrees. Abbey was a Fulbright Fellow from 1951-52. Abbey was an anarchist and a radical environmentalist; these positions are reflected in his writings. His novel Fire on the Mountain won the Western Heritage Award for Best Novel in 1963. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, considered by many to be his best work, is nonfiction that reflects Abbey's love for the American Southwest and draws on his experiences as a park ranger. Among his best-known works are The Brave Cowboy (1956), The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), and The Fool's Progress (1988). In 1966 The Brave Cowboy was made into a movie titled Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas. Two collections of essays have been published since his death in 1989: Confessions of a Barbarian in 1994 and The Serpents of Paradise the following year. In 1987, Abbey was offered the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, but he declined. Abbey died in March 1989, near Tucson, Arizona, from complications following surgery. He did not want a traditional burial but rather requested to be buried in the Arizona desert, where he could nourish the earth which had been the subject of so many of his works. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Monkey Wrench Gang

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Popolari Recenti

Deserto solitario : una stagione nei territori selvaggi (1968) 3,927 copie

The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) 2,951 copie

The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel (1989) 613 copie

Hayduke Lives! (1990) 577 copie

Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984) 396 copie

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West (1977) 384 copie

Down the River (1982) 377 copie

The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time (1956) 352 copie

Fire on the Mountain (1962) 346 copie

Black Sun (1971) 299 copie

Abbey's Road (1979) 293 copie

The Best of Edward Abbey (1984) 247 copie

Good News: A Novel (Plume) (1980) 242 copie

One Life at a Time, Please (1988) 230 copie

Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994) 229 copie

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal (1989) 228 copie

Cactus Country (1973) 211 copie

The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader (1995) 169 copie

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast (2006) 119 copie

Earth Apples (Pommes De Terre : the Poetry of Edward Abbey) (1994) 90 copie

Late Harvest: Rural American Writing (1991) 83 copie

Slickrock: Endangered Canyons of the Southwest (1971) 46 copie

Slumgullion Stew (1984) 44 copie

Desert Images (1979) 40 copie

Freedom and Wilderness (1987) 15 copie

Jonathan Troy (1954) 10 copie

Confessions of a Barbarian / Red Knife Valley (1986) 7 copie

Matter Journal 13: Edward Abbey (2010) 6 copie

In Praise of Mountain Lions (1984) 4 copie

The Edward Abbey 1982 Western Wilderness Calendar (1983) 3 copie

O Gangue da Chave-Inglesa (Portuguese Edition) (2019) 3 copie

Edward Abbey Bestsellers: Fire on the Mountain, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Hayduke Lives! 3 copie

Edward Abbey : an interview at Pack Creek Ranch 1 copia

Guadalupe's Trails in Summer 1 copia

The Secret of the Green Mask 1 copia

Best of Edward Abbey :: Updated 2ND EDITION (2005) 1 copia

Theory of Anarchy 1 copia

The Rain and the Fire and the Will of God 1 copia

Desert Skin 1 copia

Heading Home: Edward Abbey Talks About Writing 1 copia

The Thunderbird Vol. VI, No. 3, March 1951 (1951) 1 copia

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The Land of Little Rain (1903) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 596 copie

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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Collaboratore — 416 copie

The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Collaboratore — 327 copie

Wilderness U.S.A (1973) 167 copie

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty (1983) — Postfazione — 161 copie

Great Rivers of the World (1984) 117 copie

The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie

Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration (1999) — Collaboratore — 60 copie

Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places (Adrenaline) (1999) — Collaboratore — 59 copie

Appalachian odyssey : walking the trail from Georgia to Maine (1977) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 44 copie

Lonely Are the Brave [1962 film] (1962) 20 copie

Travelers' Tales AMERICAN SOUTHWEST : True Stories (2001) — Autore — 17 copie

Constructing Nature: Readings from the American Experience (1996) — Collaboratore — 17 copie

Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting (2002) — Collaboratore — 13 copie

A Zion Canyon Reader (2014) — Collaboratore — 10 copie

Unbridled: The Western Horse in Fiction and Nonfiction (2005) — Collaboratore — 6 copie

Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Summer 1969) (1969) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

Canyonlands Country: A Guidebook of the Four Corners Geological Society — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 2 copie

TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Collaboratore — 2 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Abbey, Edward
Nome legale: Abbey, Edward Paul
Data di nascita: 1927-01-29
Data di morte: 1989-03-14
Luogo di sepoltura: Cabeza Prieta Desert, Ajo, Arizona, USA
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Luogo di morte: Tucson, Arizona, USA
Causa della morte: portal hypertension, a consequence of end stage liver cirrhosis
Luogo di residenza: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Moab, Utah, USA
Istruzione: University of New Mexico (BA | 1951 | MA | 1956 | Philosophy)
University of Edinburgh (Fulbright Scholar)
Stanford University (Stegner Fellow)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Attività lavorative: author
essayist
seasonal ranger
Organizzazioni: United States Army
University of Arizona
United States National Park Service
Premi e riconoscimenti: Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1978)
Western Heritage Award for Best Novel (1963)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1987, declined)

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DESERTO SOLITARIO di EDWARD ABBEY

Ho la fortuna di possedere l'edizione italiana di Muzzio Editore, inspiegabilmente e colpevolmente fuori catalogo da anni.
L'ho letta tre volte, come tre sono state le mie visite allo stupendo parco nazionale di Arches, nello Utah.
Libro stupendo ambientato in una località eccezionale; spero che la lettura trasmetta a tutti la voglia di visitare quella meraviglia della natura! E' uno di quei posti che BISOGNA visitare nella vita.

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