His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire.

During his stay at Arches, Abbey accumulated a large volume of notes and sketches which later formed the basis of his first non-fiction work, Desert Solitaire.

Desert Solitaire, Abbey's fourth book and first non-fiction work, was published in 1968.

* Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness ( 1968 ) ( ISBN 0-8165-1057-1 )

Cover of the Steve Roach / Michael Stearns / Kevin Braheny album Desert Solitaire, 1989.

The first-run paperback edition by Avon sold only 100, 000 copies, where the first run of paperback editions for Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang both sold more than a half million copies, according to Cahalan's " Edward Abbey, A Life.

' Even Abbey's new friend Edward Hoagland -- who had first written to him on March 19, 1970 praising Desert Solitaire -- lamented in the New York Times Book Review that Black Sun was " not a masterpiece " like Desert Solitaire, complaining that " he does not always finish his books but publishes next-to-last drafts.

For the album dedicated to Edward Abbey see Desert Solitaire ( album ).

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is a literary nonfiction work by Edward Abbey ( 1927 – 89 ), published originally in 1968.

Desert Solitaire and the American Southwest

Edward Abbey ’ s Desert Solitaire depicts his entrancement with the deserts of the American Southwest.

Desert Solitaire and mainstream culture

One of the dominant themes in Desert Solitaire is his disgust with mainstream culture and its effect on society.

Desert Solitaire and wilderness

When Abbey wrote Desert Solitaire he had a distinct relation to the wilderness and demonstrated its effects on the world population.

Abbey explores our strong connection to nature in Desert Solitaire, and he urges everyone to take something from his story to try to make the connection for themselves.

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Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

This glass is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet or stony-meteorite impact.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

The area is agriculturally poor except in the river valleys, being rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Karakum Desert.

The Kalahari Desert is in the central and the southwest.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

In the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, many of which antedate the fourth century, there is frequent evidence of individual anchorites possessing in book-form collections of the Psalms.

This then is our earliest evidence of monks praying the Psalms as the main part of their daily scripted and Scriptural prayer regimen: the Desert Fathers.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.

The summit of this formation — as well as the highest point in the Sahara Desert — is Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano that reaches 3, 414 meters above sea level.

The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.

The word Cholistan is derived from the Turkish word Chol, which means Desert.

The Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally | Cholistan Jeep Rally is held in the city every year in the Cholistan desert

Transmontane chaparral features xeric desert climate-not Mediterranean climate habitats, and is also referred to as Desert chaparral.

Desert chaparral is a regional ecosystem subset of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, with some plant species from the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.

Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.

* Opuntia phaecantha, Desert prickly pear ( fruit is important food source for animals )

Nearby is also the semi-arid area known as the Accona Desert.

Dance is still used for this purpose by many cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.

Through the Desert ( Into the Desert in older edition ) is similar to The Four Islands, but consists of a large continent and smaller outlying islands.

* Anthony of Egypt, 4th cent., Egypt, a Desert Father, regarded as the founder of Monasticism

As a member and chairman of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Grijalva was widely regarded as a central figure behind the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, an ambitious County program for planned land-use and biodiversity conservation.

Historically, in Canada the area was known as the Palliser's Triangle regarded as an extension of the Great American Desert and unsuitable for agriculture and thus designated by Canadian geographer and explorer John Palliser.

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i. e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers, Sanat Kumara is an " advanced being " at the ninth level of initiation who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a floating city the on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy ( specifically, the writings of Charles W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers ), Sanat Kumara is an " advanced being " of the Ninth Initiation ( the highest Initiation possible on planet Earth ) who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a floating city the on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

The decision to cross the Gedrosian Desert, whatever his intentions, is regarded as the largest blunder in Alexander the Great's Asiatic campaign.