New Releases by Edward Abbey

“[From] a true independent, a self-declared extremist and ‘desert mystic’. . . . outstanding essays, travel pieces, and works of fiction” —Booklist This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel writing 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. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what’s happening in the author’s life at the time. When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided. “This anthology, edited by his longtime editor and friend Macrae, makes for a splendid summary of his best work. . . . Anyone who doesn’t already know his work will find this volume, culled from more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, an addictive introduction.” —Publishers Weekly “If your library is Abbey-deficient, this collection is essential.” —Library Journal “The announcement of a new Abbey book, whether essays or fiction, stirs a personal craving no other current American writer can satisfy.” —Los Angeles Book Review “A record as important and lovely as Muir’s and Thoreau’s.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature “Abbey’s work is a kind of blessed voice in the wilderness any way you take it, and a precious figure in our lethal time.” —W.S. Merwin, US Poet Laureate

Un recueil visionnaire, entre amour de la nature et rage face à sa destruction annoncée. Exploration des derniers grands espaces américains, ce recueil rempli d''aubes enflammées, de rivières brillantes et de canyons radieux invite à la méditation. Mais la beauté incomparable de l''Ouest sauvage ne peut faire oublier sa fragilité. Dans les pas d''Henry David Thoreau, Abbey dénonce avec passion les coups portés à notre patrimoine naturel au nom du progrès, du profit ou de la sécurité, et se déchaîne contre la cupidité humaine. Avec En descendant la rivière, nous retrouvons l''Edward Abbey poète et provocateur à son meilleur, au moment où nous avons le plus besoin de lui.

Jonathan Troy is a brilliant, beautiful, intensely romantic, selfish and irresponsible (but never impossible) hero. Despite his youth, he is a born leader who, like a colossus, dominates the people who come into his life, whether they have sought him out or have been sought after by him. There is his lonely, one-eyed father whose radical activity for the Industrial Workers of the World leads to a shattering climax in which Jonathan knows his own fidelity has somehow been vitally involved. There is Etheline, whose body is irresistibly attractive-and whom Jonathan successfully seduces. There is Leafy who inspires his love and alone can discipline him. There is Feathersmith, the effeminate teacher, who encourages Jonathan''s sensitivity to the poetic, and Fatgut, the pathological liar, who is foil both for Jonathan''s friendship and his rage. In a way, Jonathan betrays them all, but his greatest, final betrayal is perhaps of himself. Edward Abbey writes with perception that measures the mood and experiences of his characters in every dimension. Beneath the facade of callous brutality lies the real Jonathan, finely sensitive and introspective. The author never loses touch with this spirit on Jonathan''s quest, and the cumulative effect becomes overwhelming. This harsh, powerful, disturbing story is an extraordinary achievement for any novel, much less a first one. About the author Edward Abbey was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in 1927. Eight months before his 18th birthday, when he would be faced with being drafted into the U.S. Military, Abbey decided to explore the American southwest. He traveled by foot, bus, hitchhiking, and freight train hopping. His best-known works include Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing; the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors. JONATHAN TROY was begun as a creative writing project and is Edward Abbey''s first novel.

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Three wild and suspenseful novels about standing your ground against the forces of destruction by the author of Desert Solitaire. From the beloved author and passionate advocate for the wilderness, these three novels follow some very memorable characters in their battles against strip miners, clear cutters, and government agencies destroying the environment: Fire on the Mountain: A New Mexico man faces off against everyone from the Atomic Energy Commission to the U.S. Air Force in a battle to keep his land . . . “One of the very best writers to deal with the American West.”—The Washington Post The Monkey Wrench Gang: A motley crew of saboteurs wreak outrageous havoc on the corporations destroying the wilderness in this “wildly funny” tale (The Houston Chronicle). “Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.”—The San Francisco Chronicle Hayduke Lives!: George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he’s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . “Abbey’s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back—and not a moment too soon.” —The New York Times “I laughed out loud reading this book.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

Toute sa vie, John Vogelin a vécu sur son ranch, une étendue de terre desséchée par le soleil éclatant du Nouveau-Mexique et miraculeusement épargnée par la civilisation. Un pays ingrat mais somptueux, qui pour lui signifie bien davantage qu''une exploitation agricole. Comme chaque été, son petit-fils Billy, douze ans, traverse les États-Unis pour venir le rejoindre. Cette année-là, Billy découvre le ranch au bord de l''insurrection : l''US Air Force s''apprête à réquisitionner la propriété afin d''installer un champ de tir de missiles. Mais le vieil homme ne l''entend pas ainsi. Et Billy compte bien se battre à ses côtés. Le portrait d''un homme qui se bat pour ses idées, et celui d''un enfant qui réalise le prix de la liberté.

A mix of fiction and essays by the author described as "the Thoreau of the American West" (Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post). 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. Renowned for inspiring modern environmentalists—though his interests ranged as widely as the landscapes he loved—Abbey offers an entertaining introduction to his writing, including excerpts from the autobiographical Desert Solitaire, in addition to his own sketches illustrating the text throughout.

Le super-excavateur géant Goliath, le plus terrifiant engin jamais construit par l''homme, menace de saccager les déserts de l''Ouest américain. Les membres du Gang de la Clef à Molette, révoltés, sont bien décidés à enrayer la course du titan. Entre cette bande de quatre insoumis et la machine industrielle s''engage un combat désespéré. Les usines explosent, les bulldozers s''évanouissent dans la nature... Contre l''asservissement des esprits, tous les coups sont permis ! Suite au mythique Gang de la Clef à Molette, Le Retour du Gang, révolte nostalgique et chant d''amour aux espaces sauvages, est le dernier roman d''Edward Abbey.

Révoltés de voir le somptueux désert de l''Ouest défiguré par les grandes firmes industrielles, quatre insoumis décident d''entrer en lutte contre la «Machine ». Un vétéran du Vietnam accro à la bière et aux armes à feu, un chirurgien incendiaire entre deux âges, sa superbe maîtresse et un mormon nostalgique et polygame commencent à détruire ponts, routes et voies ferrées qui balafrent le désert. Armés de simples clefs à molette - et de quelques bâtons de dynamite - ils doivent affronter les représentants de l''ordre et de la morale lancés à leur poursuite. Commence alors une longue traque dans le désert. Dénonciation cinglante du monde industriel, hommage à la nature et hymne à la désobéissance civile, Le gang de la clef à molette est un livre subversif à la verve tragi-comique sans égale.

Le Nouveau-Mexique, au milieu des années 1950. Lorsque Jack Burns, cavalier solitaire vivant de petits boulots et dormant à la belle étoile, apprend que son ami Paul vient d''être incarcéré pour avoir refusé de se soumettre à ses obligations militaires, il décide de se faire arrêter pour le retrouver en prison et s''évader avec lui. Mais il n''imaginait pas que son évasion déclencherait une traque d''une telle ampleur... Enfin traduit en français, Seuls sont les indomptés est un western crépusculaire sur le prix à payer pour la liberté. Il est signé Edward Abbey, auteur insoumis et emblématique de l''Ouest américain, véritable icône de la contre-culture.

From “the Thoreau of the American West,” a novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness between an aging forester and a young woman (Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove). 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. She, in turn, awakens in him the pleasure of love. Then she mysteriously disappears, plunging him into desolation. Black Sun is a singular novel in Abbey’s repertoire, a romantic story of a solitary man’s passion for the outdoors and for a woman who is his wilderness muse. “Like most honest novels, Black Sun is partly autobiographical, mostly invention, and entirely true. The voice that speaks in this book is the passionate voice of the forest,” Abbey writes, “the madness of desire, and the joy of love, and the anguish of final loss.” Praise for Edward Abbey: “Abbey can attain a kind of glory in his writing. He takes scenes that have been well-traveled by other writers, and re-creates them as traditional American myths.” —New York Times Book Review “One of the very best writers to deal with the American West.” —Washington Post Book World “Abbey is a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.” —Houston Chronicle

“Abbey’s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back—and not a moment too soon” (The New York Times). George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he’s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . 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, anarchistic and ultimately redemptive” (Albuquerque Journal). “I laughed out loud reading this book.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle). When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved over by greedy government hacks and their corrupt corporate coconspirators. And the manic, beer-guzzling, rabidly antisocial ex-Green Beret isn’t just getting mad. Hayduke plans to get even. Together with a radical feminist from the Bronx; a wealthy, billboard-torching libertarian MD; and a disgraced Mormon polygamist, Hayduke’s ready to stick it to the Man in the most creative ways imaginable. By the time they’re done, there won’t be a bridge left standing, a dam unblown, or a bulldozer unmolested from Arizona to Utah. 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. The author who Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) once dubbed “The Thoreau of the American West” has written a true comedic classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all “praise the earth for Edward Abbey!” “Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.”—The San Francisco Chronicle

Poems about love and landscapes by the author of the classic Desert Solitaire, an “environmentalist, nature writer, novelist and all-around iconoclast” (The New York Times). While better known for his nature writing and his comic classic The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey was also an enthusiastic creator of verse. The New York Times called his memoir Desert Solitaire “deeply poetic”—and now Earth Apples gives us his actual poetry, in Abbey’s first and only collection. Whether writing about vast desert landscapes, New York City, or a love of bawdy women, Abbey''s verse is eloquent, irreverent, and unapologetically passionate. The poems gathered here, published digitally for the first time, are culled from Abbey’s journals and give an insightful and unique glance into the mind of this literary legend.

A cowboy takes on the forces of twentieth century tyranny in a tale by “the Thoreau of the American West” that became the classic film Lonely Are the Brave (Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove). A rugged individualist and sometime ranch hand, Jack Burns has no love for the modern world. He is a man out of time, riding his horse through a Southwestern landscape corrupted by concrete, shopping centers, and superhighways. A stubborn loner, he lives by a personal moral code that often sets him at odds with contemporary society. And he wouldn’t have it any other way. When Jack’s brazen attempt to free a jailed friend fails, the “anarchist cowboy” becomes an outlaw overnight. Suddenly he and his chestnut mare are racing toward the New Mexican high country with the state police, the military, and the FBI in hot pursuit. His private war against authority has reached a dangerous new level. But if the powerful forces aligning against him think that Jack is going to go quietly, they’ve got another think coming. 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 American hero. Brought to the big screen in 1962 as Lonely Are the Brave—a major motion picture starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau—The Brave Cowboy is a moving and thought-provoking fable of the modern American West.

« Au-delà du mur de la ville irréelle, au-delà des enceintes de sécurité coiffées de fil de fer barbelé et de tessons de bouteille, au-delà des périphériques d''asphalte à huit voies, au-delà des berges bétonnées de nos rivières temporairement barrées et mutilées, au-delà de la peste des mensonges qui empoisonnent l''atmosphère, il est un autre monde qui vous attend. C''est l''antique et authentique monde des déserts, des montagnes, des forêts, des îles, des rivages et des plaines. Allez-y. Vivez-y. Marchez doucement et sans bruit jusqu''en son cœur. » Ainsi parle Edward Abbey au début d''Un fou ordinaire. Tour à tour contestataire, contemplatif ou irrévérencieux, toujours profondément sincère, ce livre est la déclaration d''amour d''un des plus grands auteurs américains aux immensités sauvages de l''Ouest.

"Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a singular American writer and cult hero, as famous for books like Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang as he was infamous for the prickly persona of "Cactus Ed." Abbey''s postcards and letters, legendary during his lifetime and collected here for the first time, convey the fullness of the man and reveal, along with his wisdom and savage wit, a tender side seldom seen before. Whether spouting on the virtues of anger, roasting hawkish proponents of Vietnam, or lending encouragement to fellow writers such as Cormac McCarthy, here we find the essential spirit of the man, intimate and revolutionary."--BOOK JACKET.

The Grand Canyon continues to be the most popular of our national parks. While millions gaze at its cliffs each year, only 15,000 float through the canyon on the Colorado River. A landmark portrait of the Grand Canyon, this is the only photography book to document this amazing journey from river level. Now this classic is back in print, with an updated preface and introduction and a dozen new photographs. A journal in photos and words, The Hidden Canyon captures the desert landscape and the thrill of the rapids. Edward Abbey''s journalfilled with wry humor and respect for the canyondescribes the journey as the dories (small wooden boats) alternately float and charge through the breathtaking landscapes and some of the roughest white water in North America.

The environmentalist author of Desert Solitaire presents an autobiographical novel of an aging man’s anarchic journey across America in search of home. The Fool’s Progress, the “fat masterpiece” as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tucson at age sixty two. 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. Accompanied only by his dying dog and his memories, the irascible warhorse (a stand-in for the “real” Abbey) begins a bizarre cross-country odyssey—determined to make peace with his past—and to wage one last war against the ravages of “progress.” “A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force.” —The Chicago Tribune

Ce livre, un des plus beaux inspirés par le désert américain, est un chant d''amour à la sauvagerie du monde. C''est aussi un terrible coup de colère : après avoir connu la vie solitaire et sauvage dans un coin perdu de l''Utah, l''auteur revient dix ans plus tard pour découvrir que, là aussi, le " progrès " est passé. " Un chef-d''œuvre... Edward Abbey est le gardien du monde " (Yves Berger, La Pierre et le Saguaro). " Le Thoreau de l''Ouest américain " (Larry Mc Murtry).

An anthology of nonfiction, fiction, photography, cartoons, and illustrations by major writers and artists on outdoor and adventure subjects, from the groundbreaking 1970s periodical Mountain Gazette.

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. Here, the Plateau emerges as a place of secrets & subtlety; its past a prologue. Further enhancing the dream quality of these images is the fact that most were taken from the air, a vantage that renders meaningless such distinctions as "rightside up" & "upside down." The abstracting height from which these pictures were made allows us to view the Colorado Plateau as a place where unexpected things occur & unexpected thoughts are experienced. "Perhaps nowhere is the basic structure of the earth''s surface so clearly, because so nakedly, revealed. And yet--when all we know about it is said & measured & tabulated, there remains something in the soul of the place, the spirit of the whole, that cannot be fully assimilated by the human imagination."--from the opening essay by Edward Abbey.