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The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
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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 int...
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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 pref...
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In the following essay, Slovic finds the search for self-awareness to be the main theme of The Monkey Wrench Gang.
[W]ith five published novels and three volumes, including this one, of personal histo...
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Are terrorism, vandalism, and general destruction, justifiable if it's against the machines that are destroying the beauty of a defenseless nature? If asked, Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench...
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Teaching The Monkey Wrench Gang
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The Monkey Wrench Gang Lesson Plans contain 108 pages of teaching material, including:
Edward Abbey
Critical Essay by Scott Slovic
The Fight for Nature Among Humans in the Monkey Wrench Gang
