Abbey, Edward (1927-1989)
Edward Abbey's essays and novels secured his position as a leading American environmentalist during the late 1960s through the 1980s. His nonconformist views, radical ...
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Edward Paul Abbey (1927 – 1989) American Environmentalist and Writer
Novelist, essayist, white-water rafter, and self-described "desert rat," Abbey wrote of the wonders and beauty...
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Edward Abbey's nickname might just as well have been "the Monkey Wrench" instead of "Cactus Ed." Abbey breathed new life into the Luddites' notorious sabotage of technology--their tossing wrenches int...
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Edward Abbey was one of the most important and most explicitly political American nature writers of the second half of the twentieth century. He, however, disliked the phrase "nature writing"; he pref...
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