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Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power—taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat. The Monkey Wrench Gang is on the move—and peaceful coexistence be damned!

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Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power—taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat. The Monkey Wrench Gang is on the move—and peaceful coexistence be damned!

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial Modern Classics
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Dec 12 2006
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reissue
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061129763
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061129766
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.49 x 2.74 x 20.32 cm
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 860L
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Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania, in 1927. He was educated at the University of New Mexico and the University of Edinburgh. He died at his home in Oracle, Arizona, in 1989.

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  • Clyde Scobblelotcher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Edward Abbey is hilarious!
    Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2024
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    Actually he is dead. But the humour lives on.
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  • Ian Donald
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting, it grows on you
    Reviewed in Canada on January 10, 2021
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    This book is full of surprises and you will find it harder to put it down as you dive deeper into the characters and story line.
    The characters are unique and as you learn about their idiosyncraties and the bonds they form.
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  • JackBlair
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you love Mother Earth, READ THIS BOOK!!!
    Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2018
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    This is my third go-round with this beloved book. Abbey’s storytelling and writing style are compelling and unique. You will fall in love with Doc, Bonnie, Seldom Seen and my very own personal hero George W. Heyduke lll. Their “beautifying” projects will leave you wanting to join up: got to remember though the unbreakable rule #1: no damage to people! Ever!!
    Abbey’s storytelling style and the gut-busting hilarious prose will make you laugh out loud long and hard.
    And DO NOT fail to read the follow up book;
    Heyduke Lives!
    Something in this book(s) changed something in me. I have, for many years, worked and lived in some of Mother Earth’s most sacred places - (find Spatsizi and Edzisa in northern B.C.) We’ve had many such..ah..adventures particularly in the Spatsizi.
    But always remember: no damage to people! Ever!!
    Good luck
    Be smart and keep your head on tight!!
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  • Pamela Fox
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2016
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    Another birthday present.
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  • Horizen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Mont condition book, perfect delivery
    Reviewed in Canada on December 21, 2014
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    Nice book, good shape, fast delivery. I'm very happy with the purchase!
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  • Andy Vogt
    4.0 out of 5 stars Earth First.
    Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2014
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    Makes you want to get off your rear end and go out and do some environment saving yourself. Very entertaining. I liked it.
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  • Jeffrey Leach
    5.0 out of 5 stars Abbey Delivers the Goods
    Reviewed in Canada on December 13, 2002
    Edward Abbey (1927-1989) is a touchstone for anyone involved in the radical environmental movement. Abbey, who looks like the product of a union between William James and John Muir, churned out numerous books and essays concerning the American Southwest and its wondrous natural beauty. His best known work is this novel, "The Monkey Wrench Gang," a fictional tale about four nature lovers who decide to wage relentless war against America's manic desire to spread the industrial system into every corner of the country. Abbey apparently based some of the characters in the book on real people he knew during his life in the boonies. It is important to remember this while you read the book because it will scare the heck out of you that people like this actually exist.
    Abbey does not waste much time introducing the reader to his main characters. There is Seldom Seen Smith, a jack Mormon and river rafter who rambles around the countryside when he's not visiting his three wives. Seldom Seen quickly hooks up with Bonnie Abbzug, a Brooklyn born beauty with a predilection for older men and geodesic domes. Abbzug's flame of the moment is Doc Sarvis, an aging surgeon with a propensity for spouting off about nature and history when he's not operating on a patient. Finally, there is the hero of the story, George Washington Hayduke, a Vietnam vet who returns to his home only to discover bulldozers raping his beloved country. When the four meet up on a river-rafting excursion, Doc throws his checkbook into the ring so the four can go on an environmental rampage of astonishing proportions. No bulldozer, bridge, or member of the area's Search and Rescue team (run by the nefarious Bishop Love) is safe from the monkeywrenching activities of these four ecoterrorists.
    Abbey describes the destruction of industrial equipment in loving detail. The first excursion is at a construction site, in which the gang cuts wires, pours karo syrup in gas tanks, and pours sand in the engines. Subsequent missions involve driving equipment into lakes, pulling up survey stakes, destroying an oil drilling station, and rolling boulders over pick-up trucks. Whenever trouble shows up, the four melt into the rugged terrain of the Southwest, a land of desolate wastes interspersed with stunning plateaus, mountains, and rivers. Abbey's eye for beauty rarely fails in his descriptions of these haunting images. Even the most hardened soul will feel a real kinship with our vanishing wilderness after reading this novel.
    This novel is a masterwork of complexity, as Abbey juggles several themes simultaneously without missing a beat. One of these themes is, of course, the ferocity of nature. I interpreted Hayduke to be nature personified. His gruff and grungy appearance, his ability to become one with his environment, and his unbridled fury at the evil unfolding around him seem to represent the forces of nature itself. Hayduke is unrelenting in his quest to stop the destruction, even willing to resort to violence against the perpetrators whenever he sees fit. The other three characters act as a restraint on Hayduke, at least to some extent, but they also represent the various stages of humanity removed from nature. Seldom Seen Smith takes part in some of George's wilder escapades because he is closer to the environment. Bonnie and Sarvis, since they live in the city, tend to oppose many of George's plans and methods. Abbey is saying, and I may be wrong, that the farther some of us get away from the wilderness the less we are willing to do whatever is necessary to prevent the rampant destruction of the environment.
    There is no doubt that Abbey was an extremely intelligent man. His writing ability is amazingly brilliant, with numerous jokes, word plays, and multi-layered dialogue thrown in at breakneck speed. For those familiar with Ambrose Bierce or Mark Twain, Abbey will seem like an old friend. Like those two august figures of American letters, Abbey is an iconoclast, always willing to take painful swipes at any institution, accepted belief, or know-it-all jerks with absolutist values. Even environmentalists take a few shots on the chin in this book (For example, George never misses a chance to throw his beer cans out the window). Abbey's tendency to make politically incorrect comments and jokes is sure to anger many people who, in their quest to lecture us about their idea of a perfect world, accidentally left their sense of humor in the trunk of their brand new SUV. In short, when Abbey comes out swinging, be sure to duck.
    "The Monkey Wrench Gang" is truly an American classic, embodying just the right amount of rugged individualism, distrust of authority figures, and old-fashioned violence Americans love so well. About the only problem with the book is some of the environmentalists go nuts and try to pull a Hayduke in their own backyards. Abbey was careful to make the violence a bit cartoonish at times, perhaps to cover his own back in case someone gets a little carried away. Still, this is an entertaining that also gives an inside view of the environmentalist mindset. If you like great scenery and great writing, you will enjoy this novel.
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  • db
    1.0 out of 5 stars Funny but overly crude
    Reviewed in Canada on May 24, 2021
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    Not what I expected and after reading about 1/4 of the book, I removed it from my library. A refund would be nice.
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  • 鶹 Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on March 18, 2017
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  • C R Evans
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, thought provoking and a great story!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2013
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    Edward Abbey's classic tale of environmentalist/anti-capitalists traveling around the US south west undertaking schemes of direct action is a thrilling romp of a tale that engages and enthralls. Well written, well paced and providing enough information about the causes to make you want to know more, whether you agree with them or not!
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  • Carl M. Muecke
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous fun!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2012
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    I read this book 35 years ago when it came out and only remembered that I enjoyed it. Well, I enjoyed it even more the second time around! We get introduced to the four characters in the gang in the beginning who all share in varying degrees a love of the Sonoran desert and a hatred of the forces who are destroying it. They share their views sitting around a fire at night in a raft expedition down the Colorado river and agree to meet later to begin their futile crusade against the overwhelming forces of development, energy and ranching. Follow this merry band of "eco-terrorists" through a number of twists and turns to the surprising end.

    The forces that they fought are even more in control these days, with even more weapons to discourage anyone getting in their way. I think Abbey was hoping this book would encourage more "eco-terrorisim" but except for an occasional strike against the dark forces, the battle has been lost. I live now in Scottsdale where Phoenix, once a medium size town of orange and grapefruit groves, farms and dirt roads when we moved here in 1948, has become another gigantic LA plopped down in the middle of the desert.

    I recommend this to any and all who love the Sonoran desert. His descriptions of the merry band's travels through it are lyrical and show a great knowledge of the desert features and flora and fauna of the gorgeous and desolate canyon lands of Utah, and Arizona.
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  • E. J. Bucher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Traumteam: Edward und Robert
    Reviewed in Germany on April 28, 2015
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    In dieser wunderbaren Edition kommt ein Traumteam zusammen! Der kritische Griesgram und Zyniker Edward Abbey und der kongeniale Illustrator Robert Crumb! Das Visionäre Buch nimmt den Kampf gegen die Zerstörung unserer letzten Naturparadiese zum Thema, und inspiriert Widerstand und Action gegen Grosskonzerne und deren Helfer in Politik und Establishment.
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  • Hector
    3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings - Du pour et du contre
    Reviewed in France on February 16, 2017
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    A good joke. Have a laugh but don't imitate these guys. What I don't laugh at, are the coments on Indians.

    Un livre écrit dans la bonne humeur, ou comment commettre des crimes pour la bonne cause : ne le prenez surtout pas comme exemple ! Mais une chose m'y déplait souverainement, ce sont les épithètes adressés aux Indiens : paresseux, lâches, sales, incultes. Ce n'est pas vrai.
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