Several chapters center around Abbey's expeditions beyond the park, either accompanied or alone, and often serve as opportunities for rich descriptions of the surrounding environments and further observations about the natural and human world. Specifically, his search for a wild horse in the canyons ("The Moon-Eyed Horse"), his camping around the Havasupai tribal lands and his temporary entrapment on a cliff face there ("Havasu"), the discovery of a dead tourist at an isolated area of what is now Canyonlands National Park ("The Dead Man at Grandview Point"), his attempt to navigate the Maza area of the Canyonlands National Park ("Terra Incognita: Into the Maze"), and his ascent of Mount Tukuhnikivats ("Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert") are recounted.