![]() His goal in writing the book, however, was not merely to extol the beauty of rural Utah, but to protest its exploitation and destruction. ![]() A decade later in 1967, he compiled his notes from that season and published them as Desert Solitaire, now considered a classic of 20th-century nature writing. Sometime in the mid-1950s, Edward Abbey–a young social radical and aspiring author from Pennsylvania–took a seasonal job as a park ranger at Arches National Monument (now Arches National Park) in Moab, Utah. ![]()
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