The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West by Edward Abbey, and: The John McPhee Reader ed. by William L. Howarth

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-249
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Lyon
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
Edward Abbey

“Getting Nowhere. Going Home.” Edward Abbey's Quest for Shelter

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (58) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
The Self ◽  
Edward Abbey

With a focus on selected writings by Edward Abbey, the article discusses the places which the travel writer designates as home. Showing how Abbey mythologizes his birthplace and how he sentimentalizes his boyhood nest, it also analyzes the fragments in which the author employs the word home with reference to various locations the self-described desert rat defines his home, which are not necessarily the spots in his cherished American West.

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