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Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

By Sean Prentiss

Book information

Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780826355928, 9780826355911, 2014030310
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1403085 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-23 07:59:26
Biography & Autobiography; Nature; Nonfiction; BIO

Description

When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey. Sean Prentiss takes readers across the country as he gathers clues from his research, travel, and interviews with some of Abbey's closest friends—including Jack Loeffler, Ken "Seldom Seen" Sleight, David Petersen, and Doug Peacock. Along the way, Prentiss examines his own sense of rootlessness as he attempts to unravel Abbey's complicated legacy, raising larger questions about the meaning of place and home.

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