All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393352374 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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gapam said Nice to read about Mr. Nice to read about Mr. Gessner's trip and even nicer to be reminded of the writings and lives of Stegner and Abbey. "Love it" according to John Noyes. Love it. Loved the memoir style with the reflection on two of the best environmental writers of all time.. Five Stars Excellent - I am an Abbey fan and would recommend this read.
By contrast, Stegner, a buttoned-down, disciplined, faithful family man and devoted professor of creative writing, dedicated himself to working through the system to protect western sites such as Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado.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 injusticeall while reawakening the thrill of the words of his two great heroes. Boozy, lustful, and irascible, Abbey was b
. 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
“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)“If Stegner and Abbey are like rivers, then Gessner is the smart, funny, well-informed river guide who can tell a good story and interpret what you’re seeing.” (Justin Wadland - Los Angeles Review of Books)“Bringing Abbey and Stegner together was a stroke of genius.” (Bill Streever - Dallas Morning News)“Never reduces either man to simplistic categories, but sees in both personalities possible life models, men who loved nature and felt keenly the limits on human liberty.” (David Mason - Wall Street Journal)“A spirited, ecologically minded travelogue…. Gessner writers with a vividness that brings the serious ec