Serpents In Paradise

Download or read book The Serpents of Paradise written by Edward Abbey and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words. The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what's happening in the author's life at the time. When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided.