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But more than simply an exploration of personal loss, \u003ci\u003eTrespass\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of one of our most beloved and unique desert landscapes and for our vanishing connection to it. Fearing what her father's fate might somehow portend for her, Irvine retreated into the remote recesses of the Colorado Plateau--home not only to the world's most renowned national parks but also to a rugged brand of cowboy Mormonism that stands in defiant contrast to the world at large. Her story is one of ruin and restoration, of learning to live among people who fear the wilderness the way they fear the devil and how that fear fuels an antagonism toward environmental concerns that pervades the region. At the same time, Irvine mourns her own loss of wildness and disconnection from spirituality, while ultimately discovering that the provinces of nature and faith are not as distinct as she once might have believed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49645347537169,"sku":"GOR004452687","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49876392247569,"sku":"CIN0865477035G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51693676495121,"sku":"CIN0865477035A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53429336408337,"sku":"CIN0865477035VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0865477035.jpg?v=1751171421"},{"product_id":"making-a-difference-book-amy-irvine-9780762709137","title":"Making a Difference","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50060455870737,"sku":"CIN0762709138G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323045904657,"sku":"CIN0762709138VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52964254155025,"sku":"CIN0762709138A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0762709138.jpg?v=1751296461"},{"product_id":"desert-cabal-book-amy-irvine-9781937226978","title":"Desert Cabal","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A grief-stricken, heart-hopeful, soul song to the American Desert.\"\u003cbr\u003e --PAM HOUSTON, author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Creek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Ed Abbey's \u003ci\u003eDesert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e turns fifty\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eDesert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAMY IRVINE\u003c\/b\u003e is a sixth-generation Utahn and longtime public lands activist. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePacific Standard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHigh Desert Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eClimbing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriquarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eTrespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and Colorado Book Award. Her essay \"Spectral Light,\" which appeared in \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science and Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism, and her recent essay, \"Conflagrations: Motherhood, Madness and a Planet on Fire\" appeared among the 2017 Best American Essays' list of Notables. Irvine teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program of Southern New Hampshire University--in the White Mountains of New England. 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