Abbey In National Geographic-1979
Monique from the Abbeyweb recently came across the July 1979 edition of National Geographic with an Ed Abbey article titled Guadalupe’s Trails in Summer. She was kind enough to send me some scanned images of the article which I’ve uploaded for your viewing pleasure.
It’s typical Abbey, full of interesting anecdotes, short but sufficient technical descriptions, imagery and the honest truth about man’s uneasy existence in the harsh land of West Texas. He was friendlier in this review than in his essay on Big Bend, and the end is vintage Abbey:
“This is a harsh, dry, bitter place, lonely as a dream. But I like it. I know that I could live here if I wanted to. If I had to.”
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Just happen to have a copy of it on the sagging shelf replete with old NGs. Thanks for the reminder. It’s good to find a forgotten copy of the words of the Noble Bard.
A nice read. Thanks for posting. It’s always great to find a piece by Ed that I haven’t read.