![]() ![]() He intensely likes the silence and the grandeur of the wild desert and the quiet life of its inhabitants. 20) and the reader will understand why Abbey makes such a hard observation as he turns the pages of the book! The content of the book is the summing up of Abbey’s benevolence. I'm a humanist I'd rather kill a man than a snake" (p. Abbey has no hesitation in stating categorically, ". This book is like the oases in the desert. xiii) Travelling in the sand of the desert and the rocky barren land are like conducting the excavations in the goldmine which bring forth new hopes and experiences from the author’s perspective. He loves his earthly life, "the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on rocks and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind" (p. "I am not an atheist but an earthiest," Abbey says. He transports the reader from Planet earth to the celestial world when he pours out his feelings about the beauty that he experiences in the desert. ![]() Abbey writes Desert Solitaire takes us into "into the center of the world, God's navel, Abbey's country, the red wasteland" (pp. ![]()
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