Vox Clamantis in Deserto (1989)
This
little book is a nice collection of "lively, outrageous,
drop-dead funny, tick-you-off sayings, observations, musings, and
aphorisms about life, death, beer drinking, religion, music,
literature, the environment, and just about everything else"
with drawings by Andres Rush. It is a great source of quotes.
Vox Clamantis in Deserto is Latin for "a voice crying in the wilderness".
Cover text
Few writers captured the spirit of the West like Edward Abbey. Over his long writing career Abbey built up a phenomenally loyal audience, in the East and especially in the West. His fame was earned by such classics as The Brave Cowboy, Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, and Fool's Progress.
Abbey was a honest writer; a naturalist who actually lived in and with the nature; a gifted storyteller whose novels were tales spun like they must have been around campfires through time immemorial -- raucous, poignant, flowing, beautiful things that grew from the land and people that they were about.
Abbey was a story in himself, a larger-than-life persona whose exploits instantly became the stuff of legends. Angry, driven, hilarious, a lover of feuds and women, he lived with the same unrelenting passion and honesty that characterizes his writing.
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness is a unique work in the Abbey canon. Completed just two weeks before his death at his home in Fort Llatikcuf, Arizona, the book is, in sum, a credo, but in Abbey's nimble hands it is not a dry tome but a collection of lively, outrageous, drop-dead funny, tick-you-off sayings, observations, musings, and aphorisms about life, death, beer drinking, religion, music, literature, the environment, and just about everything else.
Edward Abbey was the quintessential American original, an iconoclast who paradoxically inspired his community, a hater of fools, a lover of life, and one damn fine writer. This book is just one more reason to mourn his passing and cherish his memory.
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Library of Congress Data
Abbey, Edward, 1927- Vox clamantis in deserto : some notes from a secret journal / Edward Abbey. Santa Fe : Rydal Press, 1989. xiv, 96 p. : 1 port. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3551.B2 V6 1989 <Rare Bk Coll> SUBJECTS: Aphorisms and apothegms. DEWEY DEC: 818/.5402 dc20 NOTES: "A slipcased edition of 250 copies, of which 25 are lettered & reserved for the author, and 225 are numbered & offered to the author's public"--Colophon. LC has copy no. 147. Slipcase wanting. DLC Source: Copyright deposit, Jan. 2, 1990. DLC LCCN: 90-127738
Abbey, Edward, 1927- [Vox clamatis in deserto] A voice crying in the wilderness = Vox clamantis in deserto : notes from a secret journal / Edward Abbey ; illustrations by Andrew Rush. New York : St. Martin's Press, [1990] xiv, 112 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3551.B2 V6 1990 SUBJECTS: Aphorisms and apothegms. ADDED ENTRIES: Vox clamantis in deserto. DEWEY DEC: 818/.5402 dc20 ISBN: 0312041470 : $14.95 LCCN: 89-70251
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