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The monkey wrench gang / Edward Abbey.
LIBRA Special PS3551.B2 M6 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989.
- Series:
- Perennial classic
- Perennial classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmentalists--Fiction.
- Environmentalists.
- Southwestern States--Fiction.
- Environmental protection--Fiction.
- Environmental protection.
- United States--Southwestern States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 421 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Perennial Classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial Classics, 2000.
- Summary:
- Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns 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. They (the Monkey Wrench Gang) take on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat in this is a comedic novel of destructive mayhem and outrageous civil disobedience.
- Contents:
- Aftermath
- Origins I: A.K. Sarvis, M.D.
- Origins II: George W. Hayduke
- Origins III: Seldom seen Smith
- Origins IV: Ms. B. Abbzug
- Wooden shoe conspiracy
- Raid at Comb Wash
- Hayduke's night march
- Hayduke and Smith at play
- Search and rescue on the job
- Doc and Bonnie go shopping
- Back to work
- Kraken's arm
- Duologues
- Working on the railroad
- Rest and relaxation
- Saturday night in America
- American logging industry: plans and problem
- Dr. Sarvis at home
- Strangers in the night
- Return to the scene of the crime
- Seldom seen at home
- George and Bonnie carry on
- At the hidden splendor
- Escape of the depredator
- Rest stop
- Bridgework: prolegomena to the final chase
- On your feet: chase begins
- Into the heat: chase continues
- Land's end: one man left
- Edge of the maze: chase concluded
- New beginning.
- ISBN:
- 0060956445
- 9780060956448
- 0072434244
- 9780072434248
- OCLC:
- 44616657
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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