During his service, he was in close proximity to the ruins of ancient Native American cultures and saw the expansion and destruction of modern civilization. It was during this time that he developed the relationship with the area’s environment that influenced his writing. Abbey died on March 14, 1989, due t Edward Paul Abbey (1927–1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views.Ībbey attended college in New Mexico and then worked as a park ranger and fire lookout for the National Park Service in the Southwest. His love for nature and extreme distrust of the industrial world influenced much of his work and helped garner a cult following.

Abbey attended college in New Mexico and then worked as a park ranger and fire lookout for the National Park Service in the Southwest. The individual pieces part of a fully realized whole that defined a whole new style of environmental and wilderness writing, inspiring new generations of writers (Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams come to mind) while becoming the author's best known and best loved work in the process, and yes, becoming what Abbey always feared, 'a classic'.Edward Paul Abbey (1927–1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. The late author's reflections transcend the mere genre of the environmental essay. This collection of meditations by then park ranger Abbey in what was Arches National Monument of the 1950s was quietly published in the raucous sixties in a first edition of 5,000 copies, and has now gone on to sell almost two million copies taking its rightful place alongside Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, as an environmental and wilderness classic. The author's fourth book and his first work of nonfiction. Eight lines of text in blue ink and signed Ed A. Signed holographic letter from Abbey laid in. In a dust jacket, with subtle rubbing and chipping to the extremities. Blind ownership embossment in lower right corner of title page. Small bookstore sticker at head of front flap.

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