The Journey Home (Plume) by Edward Abbey Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Journey Home (Plume)
Book Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
Great read by a fantastic author. Haven't been disappointed by anything written by Abbey.Book Review: Great book for anyone from the east dreaming about the West.
Summary: 5 Stars
This was my first Eddward Abbey book, but it certainly will not be my last. The book allows the reader to view many parts of "the West" from his authentic perspective. From his time in a firetower in Montana to retelling and following John Wesley Powell's story of exploration, Edward Abbey will have you hooked on each subject and adventure that he eperienced on his Journey. I think there is a part in all of us to want to live this type of life, but only a few of us have the courage to follow our heart and dreams the way Abbey did.Book Review: He had a great sense of adventure.
Summary: 3 Stars
Much as others have already said Edward Abbey was a remarkable man. There is no doubt that Desert Solitaire stands out like a beacon in the desert of the usual literature, now called nature writing, available today. It is the shear life, zest and energy that permeates the work as it does here, although not all the time, in "The Journey Home". Abbey's stories this time are more personal and although still not at all self conscious they are deeper because of this. In this sense they are akin to the great work of Jack Turner, "The Abstract Wild" and Doug Peacock's "Grisly years". At no time do they suggest they are great writers, rather it is their spirit which wakes the reader with its realness. As yet I have only read these two books of his but each of them is different with its own seams to unwind, the first that of the younger man and the second that of the older. Its unfortunately rare to meet people like Abbey nowadays when much of the way the world is drives out this sense of adventure and joy in nature. This is not made easy by people's unfamiliarity with nature and even fear to tread outside their comfort zones, myself included. But if you want that kind of experience and living at the edge as Abbey knows well how to do then you have to jump off that cliff sometime.Book Review: If You're New to Abbey, a Good Place to Start
Summary: 4 Stars
Edward Abbey says he's not a naturalist, not an ecologist, not a writer in the tradition of Thoreau. That's true and not, like so many things about this American original who passed from among us in 1989. Most of all, Abbey loved the American West, especially the desert, and he hated anything -- mass tourism, forces of modernization, greed -- that threatened to destroy it. His prose invites the reader to come west even as he inventories all the noxious creatures waiting to sting, spray, cut, or poison her. *The Journey Home* can be read as a set of separate essays, self-contained, each short enough to savor in a sitting; but the whole coheres around Abbey's passions, and will leave you, unless your heart has been wholly congealed in the embaling fluids of city life, yearning for the wilderness and enflamed with the mission to preserve it.Book Review: My all time favorite short story....
Summary: 5 Stars
How can I describe this book. I found it in the balcony of the renovated Bookstop on Alabama about ten year's ago. When I picked it up, I started reading chapter 3, "No Road, Disorder and Early Sorrow". I was howling. I couldn't regain composure. I had to have it. We reread it out loud every year that we take our pilgrimage to Big Bend at Thanksgiving.