<div>According to Jack Haywood, the trouble with the Hill&mdash;the farm&mdash;is that nothing ever happens there. He expects this summer, the summer of his fourteenth year, to be no different. First there is Jenny Holmes, whom he can go to see only on the pretext of seeing her brother, Les, a real pain. Jenny, who lives a mile and a half away by moonlit trail through piney woods and cypress swamp. Then there is the &rsquo;gator hole, even further from the Hill, where one can bravely swim in the secret conviction that the &rsquo;gator is a myth. There are the great summer thunderstorms, but they are to be expected. And then there is Rodney, also fourteen, down from White Plains, New York&mdash;his mother recently deceased&mdash;come to spend the summer on the Hill. But even if Jack never says so, at the summer&rsquo;s end, he&rsquo;ll know that much indeed has happened this summer on the Hill, much that is tender and warm&mdash;and quite real&mdash;in this story that is not so much of adolescence as it is of life itself&mdash;and of our right to hold to its celebration.</div>

The Rain and the Fire and the Will of God

<div>A mix of fiction and essays by the author described as &ldquo;the Thoreau of the American West&rdquo; (Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post). Edward Abbey himself compiled this volume representing some of his greatest work&mdash;including selections from such novels as The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and Black Sun, as well as a number of expressive and acerbic essays. Renowned for inspiring modern environmentalists&mdash;though his interests ranged as widely as the landscapes he loved&mdash;Abbey offers an entertaining introduction to his writing, including excerpts from the autobiographical Desert Solitaire, in addition to his own sketches illustrating the text throughout.</div>

The Best of Edward Abbey

<div>A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire. After nine months away at school, Billy Vogelin Starr returns home to his beloved New Mexico&mdash;only to find his grandfather in a standoff with the US government, which wants to take his land and turn it into an extension of the White Sands Missile Range. Facing the combined powers of the US county sheriff, the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the US Air Force, John Vogelin stands his ground&mdash;because to Vogelin, his land is his life. When backed into a corner, a tough old man like him will come out fighting . . . Fire on the Mountain is a suspenseful page-turner by &ldquo;one of the very best writers to deal with the American West&rdquo;&mdash;the acclaimed author of such classics as The Monkey Wrench Gang and the memoir Desert Solitaire (The Washington Post). &ldquo;Abbey is a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.&rdquo; &mdash;Houston Chronicle &ldquo;The Thoreau of the American West.&rdquo; &mdash;Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Lonesome Dove</div>

Fire on the Mountain

<div>Thoughts on nature, politics, love, and much more&mdash;from the environmentalist and author of such classics as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang. Finished just two weeks before his death, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness is a collection of Edward Abbey&rsquo;s observations, both bitingly witty and inspirational, on a wide range of topics&mdash;from philosophy and writing to music, money, sex, and sports. Abbey chose each passage himself from his own journals and previous writings&mdash;and warns us in his typical humorous style that some of the notes &ldquo;may be unconscious plagiarisms from the great and dead (never steal from the living and mediocre).&rdquo; Abbey&rsquo;s last wish was to be buried in an unmarked grave somewhere out in the vast desert he loved so much. This book is an enduring signal from that desert, through the words of one of the singular American thinkers of our times.</div>

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

<div>&ldquo;Abbey&rsquo;s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back&mdash;and not a moment too soon&rdquo; (The New York Times). George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he&rsquo;s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . This sequel to Edward Abbey&rsquo;s cult classic brings back the old gang of environmental warriors, as they battle a fundamentalist preacher intent on turning the Grand Canyon into a uranium mine&mdash;in &ldquo;a fine novel, combative and comic, anarchistic and ultimately redemptive&rdquo; (Albuquerque Journal). &ldquo;I laughed out loud reading this book.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times Book Review</div>

Hayduke Lives!

<div>A cowboy takes on the forces of twentieth century tyranny in a tale by &ldquo;the Thoreau of the American West&rdquo; that became the classic film Lonely Are the Brave (Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Lonesome Dove). A rugged individualist and sometime ranch hand, Jack Burns has no love for the modern world. He is a man out of time, riding his horse through a Southwestern landscape corrupted by concrete, shopping centers, and superhighways. A stubborn loner, he lives by a personal moral code that often sets him at odds with contemporary society. And he wouldn&rsquo;t have it any other way. When Jack&rsquo;s brazen attempt to free a jailed friend fails, the &ldquo;anarchist cowboy&rdquo; becomes an outlaw overnight. Suddenly he and his chestnut mare are racing toward the New Mexican high country with the state police, the military, and the FBI in hot pursuit. His private war against authority has reached a dangerous new level. But if the powerful forces aligning against him think that Jack is going to go quietly, they&rsquo;ve got another think coming. The Houston Chronicle called Edward Abbey &ldquo;a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.&rdquo; The bestselling author of The Monkey Wrench Gang delivers a stirring tribute to individualism and the vanishing American hero. Brought to the big screen in 1962 as Lonely Are the Brave&mdash;a major motion picture starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau&mdash;The Brave Cowboy is a moving and thought-provoking fable of the modern American West.</div>

The Brave Cowboy

<div>A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America&rsquo;s Western wilderness in this &ldquo;wildly funny, infinitely wise&rdquo; classic (The Houston Chronicle). When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved over by greedy government hacks and their corrupt corporate coconspirators. And the manic, beer-guzzling, rabidly antisocial ex-Green Beret isn&rsquo;t just getting mad. Hayduke plans to get even. Together with a radical feminist from the Bronx; a wealthy, billboard-torching libertarian MD; and a disgraced Mormon polygamist, Hayduke&rsquo;s ready to stick it to the Man in the most creative ways imaginable. By the time they&rsquo;re done, there won&rsquo;t be a bridge left standing, a dam unblown, or a bulldozer unmolested from Arizona to Utah. Edward Abbey&rsquo;s most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental movement. The author who Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) once dubbed &ldquo;The Thoreau of the American West&rdquo; has written a true comedic classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all &ldquo;praise the earth for Edward Abbey!&rdquo; &ldquo;Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.&rdquo;&mdash;The San Francisco Chronicle</div>

The Monkey Wrench Gang

<div>This memoir of life in the American desert by the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang is a nature writing classic on par with Rachel Carson&rsquo;s Silent Spring. In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey recounts his many escapades, adventures, and epiphanies as an Arches National Park ranger outside Moab, Utah. Brimming with arresting insights, impassioned arguments for wilderness conservation, and a raconteur&rsquo;s wit, it is one of Abbey&rsquo;s most critically acclaimed works. Through stories and philosophical musings, Abbey reflects on the condition of our remaining wilderness, the future of a civilization, and his own internal struggle with morality. As the world continues its rapid development, Abbey&rsquo;s cry to maintain the natural beauty of the West remains just as relevant today as when this book first appeared in 1968.</div>

Desert Solitaire

<div>Poems about love and landscapes by the author of the classic Desert Solitaire, an &ldquo;environmentalist, nature writer, novelist and all-around iconoclast&rdquo; (The New York Times). While better known for his nature writing and his comic classic The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey was also an enthusiastic creator of verse. The New York Times called his memoir Desert Solitaire &ldquo;deeply poetic&rdquo;&mdash;and now Earth Apples gives us his actual poetry, in Abbey&rsquo;s first and only collection. Whether writing about vast desert landscapes, New York City, or a love of bawdy women, Abbey&#39;s verse is eloquent, irreverent, and unapologetically passionate. The poems gathered here, published digitally for the first time, are culled from Abbey&rsquo;s journals and give an insightful and unique glance into the mind of this literary legend.</div>

Earth Apples

<div>Three wild and suspenseful novels about standing your ground against the forces of destruction by the author of Desert Solitaire. From the beloved author and passionate advocate for the wilderness, these three novels follow some very memorable characters in their battles against strip miners, clear cutters, and government agencies destroying the environment: Fire on the Mountain: A New Mexico man faces off against everyone from the Atomic Energy Commission to the U.S. Air Force in a battle to keep his land . . . &ldquo;One of the very best writers to deal with the American West.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Post The Monkey Wrench Gang: A motley crew of saboteurs wreak outrageous havoc on the corporations destroying the wilderness in this &ldquo;wildly funny&rdquo; tale (The Houston Chronicle). &ldquo;Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.&rdquo;&mdash;The San Francisco Chronicle Hayduke Lives!: George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he&rsquo;s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . &ldquo;Abbey&rsquo;s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back&mdash;and not a moment too soon.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;I laughed out loud reading this book.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times Book Review</div>

Edward Abbey

Books By Edward Abbey (10 Books)