Лучшие книги Эбби Эдварда

Эдвард Эбби в 1970–1980-х годах стал одной из наиболее ярких фигур в американском природоохранном движении. Ревностный защитник дикой природы, Эбби не раз заявлял, что он скорее убьет человека, чем змею. Автор нашумевших книг «Отшельник пустыни», «Банда гаечного ключа», «Путешествие домой». Эбби является одним из теоретиков экологического саботажа (экотажа), т. е. скрытого повреждения оборудования и техники, призванного сделать экологически вредные действия экономически невыгодными. В романе «Банда гаечного ключа» он рассказал о группе природоохранников, которые, желая спасти участки дикой природы от эксплуатации человеком, разрушали…

Desert Solitaire

Amazon.comFew have cared more about American wilderness than the irascible Cactus Ed. Author of eco-classics such as The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire , Edward Abbey reveals all his rough-hewn edges and passionate beliefs in

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 Tuscon 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

From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.

Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has decided that enough is enough, A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor and a polygamist join forces in a noble cause: to dismantle the machinery of progress through peaceful means, or otherwise.