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1 online resource (232) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Edward Abbey, Yesterday and Today; PART 1: SCHOLARLY PERSPECTIVES; 1: Equal Parts Anger and Love: A Posthumous Interview with Edward Abbey / Kathleen Dean Moore; 2: One Man's Terrorist: Reclaiming Edward Abbey for the Post-9/11 Era / Michael Branch; 3: Edward Abbey on Immigration / John Alcock; 4: Abbey in the Anthropocene / Curt Meine; 5: Abbey's Secret / Ben A. Minteer; PART 2: INDEPENDENT AUTHORS; 6: The View from Alaska / Nancy Lord; 7: A Meditation on Two Works by Ed Abbey / Glenn Vanstrum. |
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PART 3: FRIENDS, ACQUAINTANCES, AND COLLEAGUES8: Abbey's Road / Edward Hoagland; 9: Desert Solitaire Revisited / Doug Peacock; 10: Abbey Following His Own Truth / Jack Loeffler; 11: On the Edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives, and the Outlaws / Charles Bowden; 12: The Age of Abbey / John A. Murray; PART 4: A NEW GENERATION; 13: Faraway / Genoa Alexander; 14: Valle de la Luna / Esther Rose Honig; Afterword; APPENDIX: The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel / A Review by John A. Murray; Further Reading; Contributors; Index; Back Cover. |
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More than twenty-five years after his death, iconic writer and nature activist Edward Abbey (1929-1989) remains an influential presence in the American environmental movement. Abbey's best known works continue to be widely read and inspire discourse on the key issues facing contemporary American society, particularly with respect to urbanization and technology. Abbey in America , published forty years after Abbey's popular novel The Monkey Wrench Gang , features an all-star list of contributors, including journalists, authors, scholars, and two of Abbey's best friends as they. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Abbey in America : a philosopher's legacy in a new century. Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : University of New Mexico Press, ©2015 viii, 218 pages 9780826355171 |
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0826355188 (e-book) |
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9780826355188 (electronic book) |
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9780826355171 |
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