Edward Abbey spent most of his life in the American Southwest. He was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the celebrated Desert Solitaire, which decried the waste of America's wilderness, and the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, the title of which is still in use today to describe groups that purposefully sabotage projects and entities that degrade the environment. Abbey was also one of the country's foremost defenders of the natural environment. He died in 1989.
"The Thoreau of the American West." -- Larry McMurty, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove"Abbey can attain a kind of glory in his writing. He takes scenes that have been well-traveled by other writers, and re-creates them as traditional American myths." -- New York Times Book Review"One of the very best writers to deal with the American West." -- Washington Post Book World"Abbey is a fresh breath from the father reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier." -- Houston Chronicle
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