Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1968.

Author's Introduction -- The First Morning -- Solitaire -- The Serpents of Paradise -- Cliffrose and Bayonets -- Polemic: Industrial Tourism and The National Parks -- Rocks -- Cowboys and Indians -- Cowboys and Indians: Part II -- Water -- The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud -- The Moon-Eyed Horse -- Down the River -- Havasu -- The Dead Man at Grandview Point -- Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert -- Episodes and Visions -- Terra Incognita: Into the Maze -- Bedrock and Paradox.