Edward Abbey wrote essays, memoir-like nonfiction and fiction about wilderness, environmental destruction and the American Southwest. Desert Solitaire draws on his time as a park ranger at Arches National Monument, combining descriptions of desert landscape with arguments against roads, mass tourism and industrial development in protected places. The Monkey Wrench Gang is a comic, confrontational novel about a group of environmental activists sabotaging machinery and infrastructure they believe are damaging the Southwest. Abbey's prose can be lyrical, angry, funny and deliberately provocative, and some attitudes in his work are controversial or dated. His books fit nature writing, environmental literature and Western counterculture. Desert Solitaire is the strongest entry for readers interested in landscape and conservation, while The Monkey Wrench Gang turns similar concerns into anarchic fictional adventure. Read more Less
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