Edward Abbey

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1) Fire on the mountain

Author

Abbey, Edward

Series

Zia book

Lexile measure

860L

Language

English

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"Edward Abbey was a hero to environmentalists and rebels of every stripe. With Fire on the Mountain, this literary giant of the New West gave readers a powerful, moving, and enduring tale that gloriously celebrates the undying spirit of American individualism. This fiftieth anniversary edition, with an introduction by historian Douglas Brinkley, reminds readers of Abbey's powerful conviction that "a patriot must always be ready to defend his country...

2) Abbey's road

Author

Abbey, Edward

Language

English

3) Cactus country

Author

Abbey, Edward

Series

American wilderness

Publisher

Time-Life Books

Language

English

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This compelling new volume in the Time-Life Books American Wilderness series takes you on an incredible journey through a wild, unsettled region covering some 69,000 square miles of southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Geographers call it the Sonoran Desert. To ordinary people it is Cactus Country. Your guide is Edward Abbey, a former park ranger and self-proclaimed desert rat. With him you'll travel the length of this lonely, primitive and strangely...

4) The brave cowboy: an old tale in a new time

Author

Abbey, Edward

Series

Harper Perennial modern classics
Zia book

Language

English

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The hero, Jack Burns, is a loner who refuses to accept the tyranny of life in the 20th century. He rides his horse down the main street of Duke City, and refuses to carry draft card or any other form of indentification.

5) The journey home: some words in defense of the American West

Author

Abbey, Edward

Language

English

6) The fool's progress: an honest novel

Author

Abbey, Edward

Publisher

Holt

Language

English

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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.

7) The serpents of paradise: a reader

Author

Abbey, Edward

Publisher

H. Holt

Pub. Date

1995.

Language

English

8) One life at a time, please

Author

Abbey, Edward

Publisher

Holt

Pub. Date

[1988]

Language

English

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Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania. He received graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, and attended the University of Edinburgh. He worked for a time as a forest ranger and was a committed naturalist and a fierce environmentalist; such was his anger, eloquence, and action on the subject that he has become a heroic, almost mythic figure to a whole host of environmental groups and literally millions...

9) Earth apples: the poetry of Edward Abbey = Pommes de terre

Author

Abbey, Edward

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

1994.

Language

English

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The title, a direct translation of the French pommes de terre-p̓otatoes--reflects the author's plain-speaking approach to poetry: he loves wild doves, hates New York and is fond of bawdy women. Original art work.