title: Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey 1951-1989
author:  Edward Abbey 
description: Few have cared more about American wilderness than the irascible Cactus Ed. Author of eco-classics such as <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=038000741X/${0}">The Monkey Wrench Gang</a></i> and <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345326490/${0}">Desert Solitaire</a></i>, Edward Abbey reveals all his rough-hewn edges and passionate beliefs in this witty, outspoken, maddening, and sometimes brilliant selection of journal entries that takes the writer from his early years as a park ranger and would-be literary author up to his death in 1989.
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  The Virgin
  
  in the Ice
  
  The Sixth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint
  Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury
  
  Ellis Peters
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  [Chapter One](index_split_002.html#filepos2671)
  
  [Chapter Two](index_split_003.html#filepos36103)
  
  [Chapter Three](index_split_004.html#filepos70896)
  
  [Chapter Four](index_split_005.html#filepos90276)
  
  [Chapter Five](index_split_006.html#filepos123575)
  
  [Chapter Six](index_split_007.html#filepos160103)
  
  [Chapter Seven](index_split_008.html#filepos184142)
  
  [Chapter Eight](index_split_009.html#filepos206663)
  
  [Chapter Nine](index_split_010.html#filepos246199)
  
  [Chapter Ten](index_split_011.html#filepos278187)
  
  [Chapter Eleven](index_split_012.html#filepos323380)
  
  [Chapter Twelve](index_split_013.html#filepos358909)
  
  [Chapter Thirteen](index_split_014.html#filepos379903)
  
  [Chapter Fourteen](index_split_015.html#filepos408986)
  
  [Chapter Fifteen](index_split_016.html#filepos444785)
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  Chapter One
  
  IT WAS EARLY 