bA grief-stricken, heart-hopeful, soul song to the American Desert. br--PAM HOUSTON, author of iDeep Creeki pAs Ed Abbey's iDesert Solitaire A Season in the Wildernessi turns fiftyb, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In iDesert Cabal A New Season in the Wildernessi, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated--offensive, even--between the covers of Abbey's environmental classic. Irvine names and questions the lone male narrative--white and privileged as it is--that still has its boots planted firmly at the center of today's wilderness movement, even as she celebrates the lens through which Abbey taught so many to love the wild remains of the nation. From Abbey's quiet notion of solitude to Irvine's roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous. pbAMY IRVINEb is a sixth-generatio