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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (158261)	1/26/2008 3:09:48 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I typically read the reader reviews of books on Amazon.com, and the reviews for that In a Dark Wood recommendation are most revealing. I have to get it and make my own review. We'll have to compare notes. I plan to check it out today. I was thinking about re-reading "Playing God in Yellowstone," but would prefer something by Alston Chase that I have not read yet. I picked up a worn copy of "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey from my mother's bookshelf. You may recall Abbey as the guy who wrote "The Monkeywrench Gang," which many econuts took as a call to violent environmental action. "Desert Solitaire" was an early book (1967 copyright, and based on events in his life 1957 or 1958)and does not contain the polemic his later books have. For the most part (see below), the book focuses on Abbey's spring and summer as resident ranger in Natural Arches National Monument, in Southern Utah. The book does contain a foreshadowing of Abbey's later views. He suggests, for example, closing national parks to all motorized transport except for shuttle buses and trucks to bring in supplies and visitors' camping gear. Nothing too extreme in this, and it's what's been adopted in Yosemite and possibly some other over-used national parks. However, Abbey views humans as a blot on the pristine earth (he comments he would rather kill a man than an animal). I understand in later years, he became even more hardened in that view.