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Sierra Club Book Club: Desert Solitaire

September 18, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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Date:
September 18, 2018
Time:
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Event Website / RSVP:
https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Sierra-Club-Outings/events/253997030/

Who's Hosting This Event?

Sierra Club Austin Group
Who We Are:

The Austin Regional Group of the Sierra Club is a volunteer organization of over 5000 members. We’ve been an integral part of the Austin scene since 1968.

Our goal is to ensure that the Austin area remains a healthy, vibrant, place to live. We believe that the health of the human world is inextricably linked to the health of the natural world, and we offer a wide variety of activities and volunteer opportunities to support our goal.

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Desert Solitaire
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From the Sierra Club –

We’ll be meeting to discuss the book “Desert Solitaire” by Edward Abbey. This book has been suggested to read by other nature-lovers and Amazon.com, multiple times over and over again. So I’m pleased to read this book. It is up there with great works of environmental literature as Silent Spring. It’s said to be on of the books that transformed the genre of naturalist studies into manifestoes for social change.

Amazon.com describes is as: “Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s quest to experience nature in its purest form.
Through prose that is by turns passionate and poetic, Abbey reflects on the condition of our remaining wilderness and the future of a civilization that cannot reconcile itself to living in the natural world as well as his own internal struggle with morality. As the world continues its rapid development, Abbey’s cry to maintain the natural beauty of the West remains just as relevant today as when this book was written.”

October’s book will be “Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time”, by Jeff Speck. You’re going to want to read this. GoodReads says, “In this essential new book, Speck reveals the invisible workings of the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can all make the right choices for our communities.”

At the end of every book club meeting we discuss possible next books and vote on them.

*We’re meeting at the “Rock Garden” picnic tables. These are located uphill from the Zilker Hillside Theater*

Venue

Zilker Park
2100 Barton Springs Rd
Austin, TX 78704 United States
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