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	Introduction
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		Through his novels, essays, letters and speeches, Edward Abbey consistently voiced the belief that the West was in danger of being developed to death, and that the only solution lay in the preservation of wilderness.
		Abbey was a genuine rebel who simply did not believe in the moderns industrial way of life.
	www.abbeyweb.net /introduction.html (869 words)

	Ecology Hall of Fame: Edward Abbey
		Edward Abbey was born January 29, 1927 in the improbably named town of Indiana, Pennsylvania and lived most of his childhood in a nearby town with an almost-equally unusual name, Home.
		Abbey based his heros on real, though largely unidentified individuals who were, even then, trying to harass and delay those who were trying to develop the desert out of existence.
		Abbey took this as part of the foundation of his philosophy, drawing on his academic studies in anarchism.
	www.ecotopia.org /ehof/abbey/bio.html (899 words)

	The Well Red Coyote. Edward Abbey Books
		Doodlebug Island: A Visit to Sedona's Idiosyncratic Neighbor
		Novelist, essayist, naturalist, philospher and social critic, the late Edward Abbey may have been the most popular writer to take the American Southwest as his subject.
		Abbey's writings are a fresh and true today as they ever were.
	www.wellredcoyote2.com /cat_edward.cfm (72 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Abbey was born January 29, 1927, in the Allegheny Mountains, near Indiana, Pennsylvania.
		Abbey was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from 1951 to 1952.
		Abbey died of internal bleeding due to a circulatory disorder on March 14, 1989, at age 62.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/info_kids_abbey.html (883 words)

	Cyberwest - Books of the West: Edward Abbey
		Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, the noted author's most enduring nonfiction work, is an account of Abbey's seasons as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah.
		Abbey reflects on the nature of the Colorado Plateau desert, on the condition of our remaining wilderness, and on the future of a civilization that cannot reconcile itself to living in the natural world.
		Edward 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 American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief.
	www.cyberwest.com /books/edward_abbey.html (699 words)

	Edward Abbey
		Edward Abbey was one of the most important and most explicitly political American nature writers of the second half of the twentieth century.
		Abbey's no-holds-barred book awakened many readers to just how much damage was being done by government and business interests to so-called "public" lands, as did the many other essay collections he published throughout his career.
		Abbey regarded it as his sacred place, as well, and about a decade later he redressed the violation of the canyon--albeit imaginatively--by sending his cast of characters to test the possibilities of blowing up the dam.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~kgk/UC101/Abbey.htm (874 words)

	Amazon.ca: Beyond Wall!: Books: Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico.
		Although Desert Solitaire is Abbey's most popular work of non-fiction and is an undeniable American masterpiece, Beyond the Wall in many ways surpasses it in its praise of the beauty and granduer of nature and as a meditation on humanity's place in it.
		In Beyond the Wall, Abbey is closest to his comparison with Thoreau, in the way that the simple description of Nature itself is the focus of this work.
	www.amazon.ca /Beyond-Wall-Edward-Abbey/dp/0805008209 (972 words)

	A FEW WORDS IN FAVOR OF EDWARD ABBEY
		Edward Abbey is, of course, a mortal requiring criticism, and I would not attempt to argue otherwise.
		Abbey's most endearing virtue as an autobiographer is his ability to stand aside from himself and recount his most outrageous and self-embarrassing goof-ups, with a bemused and gleeful curiosity, as if they were the accomplishments not merely of somebody else, but of an altogether different kind of creature.
		Abbey's sentence, masquerading as an instance of his well-known "iconoclasm," slices through the distractions of the controversy to the historical and constitutional roots of the issue.
	www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk /abbey.html (3635 words)

	Edward Abbey: A Life Montana: The Magazine of Western History - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Edward Abbey was a legend in his own time and that legend has only grown since his death in 1989.
		Revered by environmentalists for his uncompromising views on wilderness, Abbey was sometimes reviled as a misogynist and criticized for the contradictions between his life's actions and the philosophy he espoused in his books and articles.
		Edward Abbey traces Abbey's life from his youth in the "Appalachian uplands," which, Cahalan argues, greatly influenced his environmental philosophy, through his rovings in the desert Southwest (p.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200210/ai_n9085547 (491 words)

	Abbey,Edward Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Edward Abbey always claimed that his 1988 novel is not autobiographical, but conceded that it had certain...
		Edward Abbey's futuristic fable presents a world that is, in Abbey's view, a logical outcome of the course being taken by American society in the 20th century.
		Edward Abbey goes beyond the wall of the city to write about the deserts and the rivers where he feels truly at home.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Abbey,Edward (1097 words)

	Edward Abbey - DesertUSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Abbey first came to the Southwest when he was 17, during the summer of 1944, between his junior and senior years in high school.
		Abbey returned to this land of powerful, mysterious promise to complete his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Philosophy, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, but not before a two-year stint in the army, stationed in Post-War Italy.
		Abbey had made two raft trips through Glen Canyon before the gates of the dam were closed.
	www.desertusa.com /mag00/nov/papr/abbey.html (1301 words)

	Edward Abbey: A Life
		It also shows that Abbey cultivated a persona both in his books and as a public speaker that contradicted his true nature: publicly racy and sardonic, he was privately reserved and somber.
		He examines Abbey's childhood roots in the East and his love affair with the West, his personal relationships and tempestuous marriages, and his myriad jobs in continually shifting locations—including sixteen national parks and forests.
		More than a biography, Edward Abbey: A Life is a corrective that shows that he was neither simply a countercultural cowboy hero nor an unprincipled troublemaker, but instead a complex and multifaceted person whose legacy has only begun to be appreciated.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /books/bid1383.htm (438 words)

	AlterNet: Edward Abbey's Road
		But Abbey was also an eloquent prose stylist whose literary celebration of the wildernesses and wastelands of the Southwest, where he lived for 42 of his 62 years, remains unmatched.
		Abbey was a tireless defender of wilderness, but he was also confident that the human flair for destruction would ultimately pale beside wind, water and time.
		Abbey was that rare romantic idealist who was also supremely practical, in part because he refused to waste time on what he called the "misty empires of obsolete mythology" (i.e.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13114 (2057 words)

	Amazon.ca: Brave Cowboy: Books: Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Edward Abbey is an excellent writer, and his prose is vivid and descriptive.
		Edward Abbey's first-best book is, of course, "Desert Solitaire," that fictionalized non-fiction work that so eloquently celebrates the pristine Southwest wilderness and mourns its destruction at the hands of industry and politics.
		Abbey’s protagonist, Jack Burns, the uncompromising rebel from another America, is as free spirited as his creator.
	www.amazon.ca /Brave-Cowboy-Edward-Abbey/dp/0380714590 (1571 words)

	Wilderness.net- Edward Abbey
		Abbey was known to throw beer cans from his car because the highway he was traveling had already ruined the landscape surrounding it.
		Abbey was not a loud advocate for monkeywrenching and his involvement with the movement seemed to have been merely as the initiator of a simple idea.
		Abbey was a ranger at the Arches (now a national park) from 1956-1957, Casa Grande from 1958-1959, Canyonlands in 1965, the Everglades from 1965-1966, Lee's Ferry in 1967, and Araviapa from 1972-1974.
	www.wilderness.net /index.cfm?fuse=feature0406 (1566 words)

	Amazon.ca: Journey Home: Books: Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In a voice edged eith chagrin, Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that readers will not soon forget, presenting the reflections and observations of a man who left the urban world behind in pursuit of the natural one and the myths buried therein.
		Abbey begins by recounting his life changing hitch-hiking, train jumping tour across america to the west in the summer of 1944.
		Edward Abbey says he's not a naturalist, not an ecologist, not a writer in the tradition of Thoreau.
	www.amazon.ca /Journey-Home-Edward-Abbey/dp/0452265622 (1242 words)

	Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While many view the desert as a place to be bulldozed, manipulated, and built upon, Abbey had the vision to see the desert as a place of beauty and wonder, And he had the strength to push for the preservation of the Southwest.
		Abbey realized that without the wilderness, we will find ourselves lost in a concrete, right-angled, meaningless world.
		Abbey showed us that through our words and actions, we may preserve that which is most precious and important in our lives.
	www.exploringnewhorizons.org /abbey-svos.html (198 words)

	Desert Dispatches -- Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey reviewed by Bruce Brown (from Washington Post Book World)
		The famously irascible Abbey was upset that I suggested that this might not be his last desert book, as he and his publicists were then maintaining.
		In his preface, Edward Abbey states with characteristic bluntness and humor that the work "is my last to be 'writ in sand.' Never again will I vandalize the slipface of a dune with my impertinent signature.
		Abbey has lots of "point of view," but sometimes it just seems to produce a series of quick-venting polemics that leave little mark despite their momentary heat.
	www.astonisher.com /archives/abbey.html (788 words)

	Edward Abbey Resources at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		The works of Edward Abbey have been well known to general readers since the 1960s.
		From the perspective of his scholarly critics in Western American literature and environmental studies Ed Abbey is, in a word, a problem.
		Abbey's Web is dedicated to the life and work of author Edward Abbey.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~ecologic/html/abbey.htm (272 words)

	Westminster Abbey - Abbey Tour - Edward the Confessor's Chapel
		The Chapel containing the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor, lies east of the Sanctuary at the heart of the Abbey.
		Around the shrine are the tombs of Henry III, Edward I, Eleanor of Castile, Edward III, Philippa of Hainault, and Richard II with his queen Anne of Bohemia.
		There are two small tombs to Margaret, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VII.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /tour/edw_confess.htm (414 words)

	Edward Abbey Biography
		Edward Abbey left his family home in Home, Pennsylvania at age 17 and headed west across America, on a journey of hitchhiking through the desert from which his heart and mind never recovered.
		Abbey, uncomfortable with his image as a counterculture environmentalist, often angered his antagonists with statements like “Society is like a stew.
		If you don’t keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top,” “Freedom begins between the ears,” and “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” Refusing to be linked with either the left or the right, he enjoyed fighting what he considered the good fight.
	www.americanswhotellthetruth.org /pgs/portraits/Edward_Abbey.html (333 words)

	Edward Abbey and Henry David Thoreau Page of Roger J. Wendell
		Edward Abbey was born in the town of Indiana, Pennsylvania on January 29, 1927.
		Neither Edward Abbey or Henry David Thoreau would have wanted to be anyone's hero.
		Despite personal faults and idiosyncrasies, they both excelled at speaking their minds regardless public ridicule and government pressure (Thoreau was jailed for failing to pay war taxes and the FBI spied on Abbey for nearly two decades).
	www.rogerwendell.com /abbey.html (909 words)

	Write a novel in a month: the example of Edward Abbey's 'Black Sun'.
		Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang: his 1975 novel.
		Edward Abbey wrote the 41,158-word Black Sun in four weeks, in the evenings after working through the day.
		Although Sandy was fit and had proven able to hike solo, it is unclear whether she has died in the Canyon (as Gatlin fears) or has simply left the area to get away from his control (as I think).
	members.cruzio.com /~zdino/bookReviews/abbey.black.sun.htm (536 words)

	Edward Abbey Signature - Fadedgiant Online Author Autograph Guide - Books, Links, Quotes
		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 American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief.
		Early in its opening pages, Abbey's alter ego, Lightcap, takes off from his nearly empty home (its contents just removed by a disgruntled spouse) in Tucson, Arizona--but not before shooting his refrigerator, a hated symbol of civilization.
		Readers would be mistaken to view this as pure autobiography, but The Fool's Progress nonetheless is an illuminating look into Abbey's time and his way of thinking, especially on matters of ecology and other social issues.
	www.fadedgiant.net /html/abbey_edward.htm (561 words)

	LitKicks: Edward Abbey
		The greatest thing about Abbey was that he really wouldn’t have given a damn whether you liked it or not.
		Echoing Abbey’s environmental concerns, including the building of the Glen Canyon Dam, and with characters based on real life figures, the book inspired countless environmentalists to take up a “wrench” in defense of the wilderness.
		Abbey died at age 69, on March 14, 1989 following complications from surgery on a recurrent vascular problem.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=EdwardAbbey (722 words)

	Edward Abbey the Humanist
		We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred [Abbey 25].” However, while this is in line with standard teachings of secular humanism, Abbey also states, “I prefer not to kill animals.
		I’m a humanist; I’d rather kill a man than a snake [Abbey 20].” It’s clear that he is a very devout humanist.
		This explains Abbey’s way of rationalizing killing the rabbit-- a story that I was shocked to read only a few pages after he said he would rather kill a man than a snake.
	www.utm.edu /staff/jmiller/2004/111H10/desert/humanism.htm (599 words)

	re: Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Legacy of Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire" -- by Karla Armbruster.
		Edward Abbey - A Man Hard To Talk About -- By Kent Duryee.
		An Interview With Edward Abbey -- conducted by Eric Temple in 1982.
	www.luminary.us /abbey (175 words)

	Amazon.com: Abbey's Road: Books: Edward Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		If you're new to Abbey's work, Abbey's Road is not the best place to start; have a look at The Best of Edward Abbey or The Serpents of Paradise, two sturdy, career-spanning collections.
		"Edward Abbey is one of our foremost Western essayists and novelists, a true maverick, a spirit not imitable, a joyous literary outlaw." (The Denver Post) --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
		Abbey makes clear that though Australia is his kind of place he is obliged to return to his mother country.
	www.amazon.com /Abbeys-Road-Edward-Abbey/dp/0452265649 (1489 words)

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