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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 preferred to think of himself as a novelist who wrote nonf...

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 into new machinery; however, he aimed his sabotage at tho...

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey Born and raised in rural Appalachian Pennsylvania, Edward Abbey (1927-89) began his lifelong love affair with the Southwest as an undergraduate at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque,...

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Desert Solitaire. Edward Abbey. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. From his earliest works, Edward Abbey distinguished himself by his exploration of societal and cultural "progress" as it impacted the wilderness. His writings concentrated on the Southwest, especially the desert. He wrote...

DAGGETT Life in a Mojave Frontier Town By Dix Van Dyke Edited by Peter Wild Johns Hopkins. 183 pp. $22.95 Dix Van Dyke -- strange name, that -- was a descendant of prominent aristocratic Easterners who found his way west at the turn of...

In the following essay, Bryant examines the complex structure of Desert Solitaire.

In the following essay, Burrows applies Abbey's background in philosophy to his treatise Desert Solitaire.