To Be Renamed... Book Club discussion

We will meet on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at Biddle's Escape (7:00 - 9:00 pm) to discuss Edward Abbey's 1968 nature-memoir, Desert Solitaire.

From Wikipedia:

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is an autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968. Although it initially garnered little attention, Desert Solitaire was eventually recognized as an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing, bringing Abbey critical acclaim and popularity as a writer of environmental, political, and philosophical issues.

Based on Abbey's activities as a park ranger at Arches National Monument in the late 1950s, the book is often compared to Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There.

The book is interspersed with observations and discussions about the various tensions – physical, social or existential – between humans and the desert environment. Many of the chapters also engage in lengthy critiques of modern Western civilization, United States politics, and the decline of America's environment.

If you cannot make the meeting on the 28th, feel free to share your thoughts here so we can include them in our meeting!