The Monkey Wrench Gang

Name: The Monkey Wrench Gang
Author: Edward Abbey

by Edward Abbey

Novel of wilderness activists waging guerrilla war against environmental destruction in the West

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Edward Abbey

American nature writer and radical environmentalist whose Desert Solitaire is the finest nature writing about the American Southwest. The Monkey Wrench Gang inspired the direct action environmental movement Earth First! He celebrated wilderness with a fierce, comic, anarchic energy.

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