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Title:

Serpents of Paradise, the
 

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Genres:

Biographical
Nature & Ecology

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1995-02-01 Henry Holt & Co.  

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Blurb: 
Ornery and unpredictable, Edward Abbey was always a horse of a different color. Just when critics had him lassoed and branded as an environmentalist or an anarchist or a lover-romanticist, he"d slip the halter -- undeterred by the taste-makers of the day. From boyhood in Home, Pennsylvania, to his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989, this book offers -- in Abbey"s own words -- the world of an American original. Whether writing gact or fiction, Abbey was always an auto-biographer. Each of the thirty-five selections presented here, arranged chronologically by date of incident (not of publication), demonstrates that Abbey was passionately, insistently his own man. As poet-farmer Wendell Berry puts it: "He remains Edward Abbey , speaking as and for himself, fighting, literally, for dear life ... for the survival not only of nature, but of human nature, of culture, as only our heritage of works and hopes can define it." Contents:
  • I. Ned: The Early Years
    • 1927-37: Stump Creek, West Virginia
    • Hallelujah on the Bum
    • How it Was
    • Drunk in the Afternoon
    • Journal IV: November 10, 1951