{"id":9139,"date":"2013-08-31T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2013-08-31T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T14:00:54","slug":"junejuly-2013-the-evolution-of-the-journey-home-by-edward-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/junejuly-2013-the-evolution-of-the-journey-home-by-edward-abbey\/","title":{"rendered":"(June\/July 2013) The Evolution of \u201cThe Journey Home\u201d by Edward Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A look at his original manuscript\u2013the Introduction<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EDWARD ABBEY\u2019S collection of essays was originally to be called &#8216;Desert Music.&#8217; Ed was always trying to help out young artists and writers and based on a single cartoon I\u2019d given him the previous winter, he put in a good word for me with his publishers in New York.<br \/>\nE.P Dutton hired me to draw 26 chapter illustrations and the cover and to my surprise, they sent me a frst generation copy of Abbey\u2019s manuscript, complete with his edits and margin comments.<br \/>\nLater, he proposed that the book be called \u201cRevelations,\u201d but when it fnally went to press in the spring of 1977, Abbey\u2019s book had become &#8216;The Journey Home.'&#8221; &#8211; JS<\/p>\n<p><em>To see all the images of Ed&#8217;s first draft, click the image below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/06\/02\/the-evolution-of-the-journey-home-by-edward-abbey\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-9140\" alt=\"journeyhome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/journeyhome-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"524\" height=\"784\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/06\/02\/the-evolution-of-the-journey-home-by-edward-abbey\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/06\/02\/the-evolution-of-the-journey-home-by-edward-abbey\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at his original manuscript\u2013the Introduction &#8220;EDWARD ABBEY\u2019S collection of essays was originally to be called &#8216;Desert Music.&#8217; Ed was always trying to help out young artists and writers and based on a single cartoon I\u2019d given him the previous winter, he put in a good word for me with his publishers in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9601,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions\/9601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}