There are countless Edward Abbey courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- Desert Solitaire (1990)
- The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2006)
- Fire on the Mountain (2012)
- The Best of Edward Abbey (2005)
- Down the River (Plume) (1991)
- The Fool’s Progress: An Honest Novel (1998)
- The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West (Plume) (1991)
- The Serpents of Paradise (1996)
- The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2016)
- Black Sun: A Novel (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2014)
- Abbey’s Road (Plume) (1991)
Desert Solitaire (1990)
Hailed by The New York Times as “a passionately felt, deeply poetic book,” the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southwestern wilderness.Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in the wilderness and the nature of the desert itself by park ranger and conservationist, Edward Abbey.
The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2006)
Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development.
Fire on the Mountain (2012)
“The Thoreau of the American West.”—Larry McMurty, author of Lonesome Dove“Abbey is a fresh breath from the father reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.”—Houston Chronicle“One of the very best writers to deal with the American West.”—Washington PostA half-century after its original publication, Edward Abbey’s classic 1962 novel, Fire on the Mou…
The Best of Edward Abbey (2005)
This is the only major collection of Abbey’s writings compiled by the author himself: in his own words, “to present what I think is both the best and most representative of my writing—so far.” It serves up a rich feast of fiction and prose by the singular American writer whom Larry McMurtry called “the Thoreau of the American West.”Devoted Abbey fans along with readers just discovering his work will find a mother lode of treasures here: generous chunks of his bes…
Down the River (Plume) (1991)
Down the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free, and the grandeur of nature gives rise to meditations on everything from the life of Henry David Thoreau to the militarization of the open range.
The Fool’s Progress: An Honest Novel (1998)
When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West Virginia.
The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West (Plume) (1991)
The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that we’ll not soon forget, offering us the observations of a man who left the urban world behind to think about the natural world and the myths buried therein.
The Serpents of Paradise (1996)
This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed’s life directly, in his own words.The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey’s life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62.
The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2016)
From acclaimed author and literary genius Edward Abbey comes this classic novel that inspired the motion picture Lonely Are The Brave—a stirring and unforgettable tribute to the American hero and the American West.The Brave Cowboy is a classic of modern Western literature. It follows Jack Burns, a loner at odds with modern civilization. He rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West—a once beautiful land now smothered beneath airstrips and superhighways.
Black Sun: A Novel (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2014)
Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America’s foremost defenders of the natural environment.Black Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced “American princess” half his age. Like Lady Chatterley’s lover, he initiates her into the rites of sex and the stark, secret harmonies of his wilderness kingdom.
Abbey’s Road (Plume) (1991)
“The natural world, as we call it, has already become remote, out of reach, mysterious, in the minds of urban and suburban Americans. They see the wilderness disappearing, slipping away, receding into an inaccessible past. But they are mistaken. That world can still be rescued… that is my main excuse for this book.”— You are about to visit some of the most exciting places on earth. Not the sort of excitement that makes morning headlines or the nightly news.
Best Edward Abbey Books You Must Read
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The red caddy: into the unknown with Edward Abbey
Author(s): Abbey, Edward;Bowden, Charles;Urrea, Luis Alberto
ID: 2586003, Publisher: University of Texas Press, Year: 2018, Size: 808 Kb, Format: epub
America first!: it's history, culture, and politics
Author(s): America First Committee.;Abbey, Edward;Buchanan, Patrick Joseph;Fulbright, James William;Kauffman, Bill;Kerouac, Jack;Lewis, Sinclair;Roosevelt, Alice Lee;Vidal, Gore
ID: 2596111, Publisher: Prometheus Books, Year: 2016, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Abbey in America : a philosopher's legacy in a new century
Author(s): Abbey, Edward; Murray, John A
ID: 1420465, Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, Year: 2015, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
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