{"product_id":"desert-solitaire-a-season-in-the-wilderness-1","title":"Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.”—Edwin Way Teale, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This is not primarily a book about the desert,” writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. “In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. But the desertis a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite. If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument. What I have tried to do then is something a bit different. Since you cannot get the desert into a book any more than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his nets, I have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as medium than as material. Not imitation but evocation has been the goal.”","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9780345326492-001","offer_id":43779513450557,"sku":"9780345326492-001","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/25890023482310.jpg?v=1791397405","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/desert-solitaire-a-season-in-the-wilderness-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}