After repeated attempts to become one with his environment, he concludes that animals and the earth are just as important as humans.
He records his thoughts and experiences in notebooks which he later arranges into Desert Solitaire. During his six months in the desert, Abbey deepens his connection to the landscape, discovers spiritual truths in the desert’s various rock formations, and thinks hard about the effects of solitude. Almost entirely alone in his park ranger duties, Abbey dominates the memoir, so readers get to know his feelings on everything from cactus flowers and ants to world religion and international politics. A hot-headed and opinionated outdoorsman, Abbey has a deep spiritual bond with nature and detests industrial tourism. He’s a 40-year-old American writer looking back on the summer he spent 10 years ago, in 1956, as a park ranger in Arches National Monument, a desert national park in Utah. Abbey is the author and protagonist of Desert Solitaire.
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