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Edward Abbey
Long considered an underground classic, The Journey Home stands beside Desert Solitaire as one of Abbey’s most important works. In a voice edged eith chagrin, Abbey offers a portrait of…
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The US government and big business teamed up to build dams and bridges across the American West. A band of individuals teamed up to prevent it happening. In this chaotic…
Reprint. Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, c1968.
Edward Abbey,Edward Abbey
This extraordinary tale by the legendary icon of the environmentalism movement and author of The Monkey Wrench Gang proudly celebrates rugged American individualism, as it tells the story of one…
James M. Cahalan
The best biography ever about Ed. Cahalan’s meticulous research and thoughtful interviews have made this book the authoritative source for Abbey scholars and fans alike.? ?Doug Peacock, author, environmentalist activist…
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Includes a selection of writings by Edward Abbey: a chapter from Hayduke Lives! , the sequel to The Monkey Wrench Gang ; excerpts from his revealing journals; a little-known account…
Jack, an old man in search of his son, and Sam, a Harvard-educated Indian, face the dictator and his nasty band of killers who are taking over the South.
Abbey’s explorations include the familiar territory of the Rio Grande in Texas, Canyonlands National Park, and Lake Powell in Utah. He also takes readers to such varied places as Scotland…
The sequel to The Monkey Wrench featuring the ex-Green Beret George Washington Hayduke who was thought dead, but lives to fight again. The author has also written Desert Solitaire and…
A loner who refuses to accept the tyranny of life in the twentieth century heads for Mexico when his stubborn adherence to the values of the Old West makes him…
The timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America’s foremost defenders of the natural environment.
Black Sun is a bittersweet love story…
Jonathan Troy is a brilliant, beautiful, intensely romantic, selfish and irresponsible (but never impossible) hero. Despite his youth, he is a born leader who, like a colossus, dominates the people…
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Four irate rebels join forces to wage war on the stripminers, clear-cutters, and the highway and dam and bridge builders who are turning their natural habitat into a wasteland. A…
Henry Lightcap, a man facing a terminal illness, sets out on a trip across America accompanied only by his dog, Solstice, and discovers the beauty and majesty of the Southwest.
Warhorse, gadfly, storyteller, naturalist–there is no simple category to contain the vibrant prose voice of Edward Abbey. And this snappy collection of es says displays the author of Desert Solitaire…
The author leads readers, via his own personal experiences and solitary wonder, into the splendors, solemnities, and perils of the American desert.
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Essays discuss Thoreau, politics, the MX missile, modern agricultural methods, and the author’s adventures traveling down rivers in Utah, Arizona, and Mexico.
Ann Ronald
This study assesses the literary career of Edward Abbey. The author asserts that his role as social commentator and environmental activist is complemented by his guise as a writer of…
Charles Bowden
The first literary biography of Edward Abbey in a generation, this thoughtful memoir serves as a meditation on the writing life, the cult of readers, reputation, and the literary afterlife…
Andreas Goebel
Der 1989 verstorbene amerikanische Autor Edward Abbey gehort zu den einflussreichsten, aber auch umstrittensten Naturschriftstellern des Landes. Die Studie behandelt Aspekte der Okologie in rund 100 seiner Naturessays aus der…
J. Michael Orenduff
The pot thief is going back to school, but someone on campus is trying for a different kind of degree-murder in the first-in this smartly funny series (Anne Hillerman). Before…
Sean Prentiss
When the environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting…
David M. Pozza
Rarely does an author so thoroughly entertain and anger his readers as Edward Abbey does. This book focuses on Abbey’s aesthetic and philosophy of paradox as they are reflected in…
Jr. James Bishop
Drawing on Edward Abbey’s published writings, personal papers, and interviews with friends and acquaintances, Bishop paints a revealing, no-holds-barred portrait of the outspoken and often outrageous man who inspired the…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
ML Lincoln
Features interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured are inspired by Edward Abbey, one of America’s uncompromising…
‘My favourite book about the wilderness’ Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to…
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David Gessner
An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
Drift down the Colorado River through Glen Canyon and explore the people and places that encompass the history of this majestic canyon before it drowned in the rising waters of…
Philip Harnden
Where do our journeys take us? What do we leave behind? What do we carry with us? How do we find our way? You are invited to consider a more…
Offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.
Offers vignettes of forty travellers and the few things they carried with them from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death, such as: What Thoreau took…
But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.
And write letters Edward Abbey- the Thoreau of the American West (Washington Post)-did. At once incendiary and…
Edward Liddell
This historical text provides a detailed history of St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire, England. With extensive research and detailed descriptions of the architecture and art at the abbey, this book…
Edward Miller
A study of the formation of a large estate by Ely Abbey during the tenth and eleventh centuries and of the various social groups on that estate after the foundation…
James I. McClintock
The writers featured in this volume have all recorded their encounters with nature. McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and…
Edward Austin Abbey,Alfred William Parsons
Title: Old Songs. With drawings by E. A. Abbey and Alfred Parsons.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one…
