The Monkey Wrench Gang. [Novel about Freedom & Commitment That Ignited the Flames of Environmental Activism].

By Edward Abbey

Book Overview

The bridge, bedecked with bunting, streamers and Day-Glo banners, was ready. The throng prepared to unloose a cheer or two. Suddenly the center of the bridge rose up and broke in two along a jagged zigzag line. A sheet of re flame streamed skyward. "This is their last stunt, Governor. We're on their tail, sir. We have a good ideas who they are, how they operate, and what they're planning next." ...The Monkey Wrench Gang.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380408570
• ISBN13: 9780380408573
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Abbey Delivers the Goods

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) is a touchstone for anyone involved in the radical environmental movement. Abbey, who looks like the product of a union between William James and John Muir, churned out numerous books and essays concerning the American Southwest and its wondrous natural beauty. His best known work is this novel, "The Monkey Wrench Gang," a fictional tale about four nature lovers who decide to wage relentless war against...

There's Abbey himself in Doc, Seldom Smith, and Hayduke.

This is the first fiction by Abbey that I've read. That it almost reads like a true story largely stems from the keen sense and accurate knowledge of Colorado Plateau geography that Abbey had. His description of the gnarled and surreal landscape---and the interplay of light, sky, and rock---especially of the Canyonlands area of Utah, is so vivid that it harks back to his compulsively readable nonfiction work in "Abbey's...

Monkey Wrench Gang

This is definitely a different book. For a fifteen year old like me, it makes damn sure that we realize that the crap the media fills the world with aint true at all. I read Desert Solitaire over the summer, and enjoyed it thourougly, leading me to check out MWG from teh school library.Too many people try to peg Abbey as a naturalist. He's not. He says so in the forward to "Journey Home" (which I started last night). ...