I performed several decades of original research on the region and the historical people who passed through the East Mojave, and I have included the most interesting historical events (such as the "last great gun fight" in the USA Southwest) in an easy, humorous narrative. How I interacted with the desert and the people I encountered while living in "my" cave is the theme that binds the manuscript together. If you ever thought about getting away from everything, about just walking off or driving off in to the wilderness, whether mountains, deserts, or in to a teeming, crowded city, you should read Desert Soliloquy, it offers witty, stark, gritty commentary not just on desert life alone by yourself but also stark, truthful insights in to grubby humanity and some of humanity’s worse faults, faults which motivate so many of us to wish to emulate Desertphile and just walk off in to the sunset."Desert Soliloquy A Perfectly Sane Misanthrope Hides in the Desert" is like combining Walden with Blazing Saddles with a bit of history about the East Mojave Desert. The novel, “Desert Soliloquy: A Perfectly Sane Misanthrope Hides in the Desert” is the culmination of authorship which sought to describe what it was like to just walk away, something that millions, tens of millions of people around the world would love to do themselves.
Several years after the experience, after re-joining humanity (albeit currently living and working on a cattle ranch in New Mexico with very few people crowding in) Desertphile wrote about his adventures, drawing from numerous hand-written volumes of notes and observations that he made while living in a shallow cave.
Several years ago, a guy who is known the world over by the name “Desertphile” did that, driving off in to the Mojave Desert, ditching his pickup truck, and walked off in to the dry, demanding environment to live in a cave for 18 months, experiencing the harsh living conditions and enjoying the companionship of other, four-legged denzines of the desert. Millions of Americans, and tens of millions of people around the globe have downloaded a pamphlet from The Skeptic Tank entitled “Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America Without a Trace,” and about ten thousand new downloads of the web page is accessed every month, a phenomena which shows considerable interest in people’s desires to walk away from everything and disappear.
This novel was difficult to put down, I found myself staying up all night reading to find out what happened next, it was witty and informative as well as disturbing at times.
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