bAt last, b one of the most popular books on the American West is available once again in hardcover. In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of iDesert Solitaire, i the University of Arizona Press is pleased to publish a new edition featuring a new introduction by the author, his definitive corrections to the text, and new illustrations commissioned exclusively for this volume. p Edward Abbey's account of two summers spent in southeastern Utah's canyonlands is surely one of the most enduring works of contemporary American nature writing. In it he tells of his stint as a park ranger at Arches National Monument, of his love for the natural beauty that surrounded him, and of his distaste for the modernizing improvements designed to increase visitation to the park. p I confess to being a nature lover, admits Abbey more than thirty years after his sojourn in the wilderness. But I did not mean to be mistaken for a nature writer. I never wanted to be anything but a writ