Like DESERT SOLITAIRE and THE JOURNEY HOME, ABBEY'S ROAD is a personal odyssey, an exploration of places Abbey loved--the Rio Grande, Canyonlands National Park and Lake Powell.

But it is also more, a journey to new locations--Scotland, the interior of Australia, the Sierra Madre and Isla de la Sombra in Mexico. It all shows Abbey's concern for the wild places and sparkles with his impolite challenge to establishment thinking.