{"product_id":"desert-solitaire","title":"DESERT SOLITAIRE","description":"\u003cb\u003eRough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.--Edwin Way Teale, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not primarily a book about the desert, writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. But the desertis a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite. If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument. What I have tried to do then is something a bit different. Since you cannot get the desert into a book any more than a fisherman can haul up the sea with his nets, I have tried to create a world of words in which the desert figures more as medium than as material. Not imitation but evocation has been the goal.","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46610582765737,"sku":"PHBK-9780345326492","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_dd877042-2174-4994-b6d6-0ac7b75508ae.jpg?v=1764707555","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/desert-solitaire","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}