Confessions of a barbarian

Edward Abbey was an anarchist, activist, philosopher, and the spiritual father of the environmental movement. He was also a passionate journal keeper, a man who filled page after page with notes, philosophical musings, character sketches, illustrations, musical notations, and drawings. His "scribbling," as he called it, began in 1948, when he served as a motorcycle MP in postwar Italy, and continued until his death in 1989, totaling twenty-one volumes. His journals are the closest thing to an Abbey autobiography we will ever have. They reveal his youthful philosophical ruminations about art, love, literature and anarchy; follow his wanderings through Europe and the Eastern States and finally his spiritual home, the American West; and chronicle his lifelong struggle to preserve the disappearing wilderness.--From publisher description.

First sentence: Road map: After graduating from high school at Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1945, and facing induction into the wartime military on his eighteenth birthday some eight months hence, "Ned" (as the Abbey clan knew him) embarked on a solo tour of the American Southwest, traveling by foot, bus, thumb, and "hopped" freight train.

Year

1986

Language

English

Publisher

Back Bay Books

Editions

1

Pages

356

ISBN

9780316004169

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