The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
 An excellent introduction to Edward Abbey's work: After reading this collection, which serves as a retrospective of the writin career of one of the better SW writers, I was left with a feeling that the selection could have been better, but this probably [... more]
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Hayduke Lives!: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Ed Abbey's 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, ended with a classic--and literal--cliffhanger: it left its hero, George Washington Hayduke III, clinging to a sheer rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for [... more]
$14.99
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Good News: A Novel (Plume)
Too bad I like the City: What is amazing about Abbey is how much I buy into his worldview of nasty cities sucking the life out of people and the few free men going out into the country and living off the land. Abbey writes modern Westerns and this one [... more]
$15.00
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Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an ...
Interesting collection of letters: This book collects the letters of Edward Abbey, author and provocateur. If you don't know and enjoy his books such as "Desert Solitaire" or "The Monkey Wrench Gang," you should read those first. If [... more]
$24.95
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
Why walk in a desert? Why get off the sofa at all?: This is a fine collect of 10 early hikes and float trips Abbey made mostly in the high deserts of the American Southwest. The last takes place in Alaska. In "A Walk in the Desert Hills" Abbey [... more]
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)
Amazon.com Review: Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the [... more]
$14.00
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The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
Amazon.com Review: Just before he died in 1989, Ed Abbey published what he called his "honest novel," one loosely based on his own life. Early in its opening pages, Abbey's alter ego, Lightcap, takes off from his nearly empty home (its contents [... more]
$13.00
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Monkey Wrench Gang
Amazon.com Review: Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the [... more]
$6.99
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Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an ...
Interesting collection of letters: This book collects the letters of Edward Abbey, author and provocateur. If you don't know and enjoy his books such as "Desert Solitaire" or "The Monkey Wrench Gang," you should read those first. If [... more]
$16.00
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Black Sun
You can almost smell the great outdoors...: An early Abbey work, Black Sun is a very good novel written in a style similar to John D. MacDonald only more alive, more real. Will Gatlin is much like Travis McGee, an imperfect fellow who has learned to live [... more]
$4.95
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Desert Solitaire
Amazon.com Review: With language as colorful as a Canyonlands sunset and a perspective as pointed as a prickly pear, Cactus Ed captures the heat, mystery, and surprising bounty of desert life. Desert Solitaire is a meditation on the stark landscapes of [... more]
$2.50
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
Amazon.com Review: Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the [... more]
$14.95
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