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 govern...

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 intere...

‘My favourite book about the wilderness’ Cheryl Strayed, author of WildIn this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service.Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert; a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose,...

Révoltés de voir le somptueux désert de l’Ouest défiguré par les industriels, 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 doive...

Peu de livres ont autant déchaîné les passions que celui que vous tenez entre les mains.Publié pour la première fois en 1968, Désert solitaire est en effet de ces rares livres dont on peut affirmer sans exagérer qu'il « changeait les vies » comme l'écrit Doug Peacock.À la fin des années 1950, Edward Abbey travaille deux saisons comme ranger dans le parc national des Arches, en plein cœur du désert de l'Utah. Lorsqu'il y retourne, u...

"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 warrio...

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 ...

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 ...

A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire.After nine months away at school, Billy Vogelin Starr returns home to his beloved New Mexico—only to find his grandfather in a standoff with the US government, which wants to take his land and turn it into an extension of the White Sands Missile Range.Facing the combined powers of the US county sheriff, the Department of the I...

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 A...

Thoughts on nature, politics, love, and much more—from the environmentalist and author of such classics as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang.Finished just two weeks before his death, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness is a collection of Edward Abbey's observations, both bitingly witty and inspirational, on a wide range of topics—from philosophy and writing to music, money, sex, and sports.Abbey chose each passage himself f...

« 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. Vi...