Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Elizabeth Zach, The Washington Post Winter tourists photograph Delicate Arch, an iconic rock structure at Arches National Park in Utah. Edward Abbey's book ...

Fifty years ago, Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” was published to decent reviews but little fanfare. “Another book dropped down the bottomless well. Into oblivion,” wrote a disheartened Abbey in his ...

Fifty years ago, Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” was published to decent reviews but little fanfare. “Another book dropped down the bottomless well. Into oblivion,” wrote a disheartened Abbey in his ...

It's hot, really hot, and we are whining, really whining, about the heat. We need the great Edward Abbey to set us straight. So I interviewed him, paying no heed to the small fact that Abbey is dead.

Fifty years ago, Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire was published to decent reviews but little fanfare. “Another book dropped down the bottomless well. Into oblivion,” wrote a disheartened Abbey in his ...