Cover of Abbey's Road

Abbey's Road

You are about to visit some of the most exciting places on earth. Not the sort of excitement that makes morning headlines or the nightly news. Instead it is the excitement that comes from experiencing the natural world as it always has been and should be, and seeing human beings living in tune with its subtlest rhythms. In Australian cattle country and in the primitive outback. On a desert island off Mexico and in the Sierra Madres. On the Rio Grande and in the great Southwest. On Lake Powell in Utah and in the living American desert. It is adventure. It is enlightenment. It is vintage Abbey.

Subject
travelbiographypolitics
Genre
adventure
Themes
environmentnature
Setting
1970samerican west
Audience
adult
Length
short · 198 pages
Form
essays

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