Books written by Edward Abbey
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The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
Henry Lightcap, a man facing a terminal illness, sets out on a trip across America accompanied only by his dog, Solstice, and discovers the beauty and majesty of the Southwest
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Desert Skin
Tom Miller's photographs of the Colorado Plateau offer a unique view of a remarkable landscape. His delicate black-&-white images emphasize texture & tactility rather than massive form or saturated color....
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The Best of Edward Abbey
" Two decades later, it remains the only major collection of his work chosen by Abbey himself, a rich feast of fiction and prose by the singular American writer whom Larry McMurtry called "the Thoreau of the American West" and whom Alice ...
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
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 ...
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey’s most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental movement.
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The Best of Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey himself compiled this volume representing some of his greatest work—including selections from such novels as The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and Black Sun, as well as a number of expressive and acerbic essays.
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The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
Henry Lightcap, a man facing a terminal illness, sets out on a trip across America accompanied only by his dog, Solstice, and discovers the beauty and majesty of the Southwest
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The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
From boyhood in Home, Pennsylvania, to his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989, this book offers - in Abbey's own words - the world of an American original. Whether writing fact or fiction, Abbey was always an autobiographer.
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One Life at a Time, Please
From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.
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Fire on the Mountain
A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire.
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The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West
The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest.
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Cactus Country
Cactus Country
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Hayduke Lives!
This sequel to Edward Abbey’s cult classic brings back the old gang of environmental warriors, as they battle a fundamentalist preacher intent on turning the Grand Canyon into a uranium mine—in “a fine novel, combative and comic, ...
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The Brave Cowboy
The Houston Chronicle called Edward Abbey “a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.” The bestselling author of The Monkey Wrench Gang delivers a stirring tribute to individualism and the vanishing ...
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Die Monkey-Wrench-Gang: ein Roman
Die Monkey-Wrench-Gang: ein Roman
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Desert Solitaire
As the world continues its rapid development, Abbey’s cry to maintain the natural beauty of the West remains just as relevant today as when this book first appeared in 1968.
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Down the River
Down the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely.
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Down The River
Down The River
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The Best of Edward Abbey
In 1984, the late great Edward Abbey compiled this reader, endeavoring, as he says in his preface, "to present what I think is both the best and most representative of...
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Good News: A Novel
This is a land of horses and motorcycles, high-tech weaponry and primitive courage, and the struggle for the American future is mounting in intensity.