July 4, 2008 | link to post
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey is a book that belonged to a former communication professor of mine.
The book is intensely good. His writing is descriptive, wry and beautiful.
A sample:
“I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.”