Edward Abbey, a self-proclaimed “agrarian anarchist,” was hailed as the “Thoreau of the American West.” Known nationally as a champion of the individual and one of this country’s foremost defenders of the natural environment, he was the author of twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, and The Journey Home. In 1989, at the age of sixty-two, Edward Abbey died in Oracle, Arizona.
“Abbey’s unique prose voice… is the voice of a full-blooded man
airing his passions… alternately misanthropic and sentimental,
enraged and hilarious.”—People
“The man, quite simply, is a master.”—The Bloomsbury Review
“A record as important and lovely as Muir’s or Thoreau’s.”—New York
Post
“One of our foremost Western essayists and novelists. A militant
conservationist, he has attracted a large following—not only within
the ranks of Sierra Club enthusiasts and backpackers, but also
among armchair appreciators of good writing. What always made his
work doubly interesting is the sense of a true maverick spirit at
large—a kind of spirit not imitable, limited only to the highest
class of literary outlaws.”—The Denver Post
“Abbey is a gadfly with a stinger like a scorpion.”—Wallace
Stegner
“In his own inimitable fashion, Abbey prevails among the scant
handful of our best and brightest fresh-air scribes.”—Chicago
Sun-Times
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