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Edward  Abbey

Edward Paul 'Cactus Ed' Abbey was born 29 January 1927 in Pennsylvania,
and raised necessary hell in the wilderness
until his death 14 March 1989 near Tucson, Arizona.

fiction • non-fiction • works about Ed

Edward Abbey books catalog at Amazon.com
Edward Abbey videos at Amazon.com
Edward Abbey listing at Internet Movie Database
Edward Abbey entry at Wikipedia

CL's Edward Abbey fansite
Edward Abbey papers at University of Arizona
Edward Abbey quotes page
Douglas Brinkley profile of Ed Abbey [NPR Weekend Edition Jan 2000]
Tucson Weekly article [Nov 95] by Luis Alberto Urrea
article by Wendell Berry [1985]
2-part article by James L. Cahalan
Pack Creek Guest Ranch in Moab, Utah {good friends of Ed}
Dave Foreman's new Rewilding Institute {parked 5/2004}
Glen Canyon Institute [est. 1996]

Quotations of Edward Abbey Page at Working Minds

Edward  Abbey's  Fiction

	"The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale In A New Time" [novel 1956] Avon 8x5¼ pb [4/92] for $10.80 Univ NM Press 8x5½ pb [10/77] out of print/used BooksOnTape audio [1/88] out of stock/used
	"Lonely Are The Brave" [May 1962] Directed by David Miller; script by [blacklistee] Dalton Trumbo, based on Abbey's 'The Brave Cowboy'; starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands & Walter Matthau Universal b&w VHS [5/92] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb
	"Fire On The Mountain" [novel 1962] Avon 8x5¼ pb [4/92] for $10.36 S.E.R. 8x5.3 hardcover [4/92] for $18.23 Avon mass mrkt pb [4/92] out of print/used Avon pb [6/82] out of print/used tv movie [aired on NBC Nov 1981] Directed by Donald Wrye; script by John Sacret Young from Abbey's novel; starring Buddy Ebsen, Ron Howard, Julie Carmen & Rossie Harris, with Will Hare as Hayduke; music by Basil Poledouris video not available; full credits from IMDb
	"Black Sun" [novel 1971] Johnson Books pb [9/2003] for $10.50 Avon pb [5/91] out of print/used Capra Press 8½x5¾ pb [11/99] out of print/used S&S hardcover [71] out of print/used BooksOnTape audio [9/89] out of stock/used?
	"The Monkey Wrench Gang" [novel 1975] Harper 8x5¼ pb [7/2000] for $11.20 McGraw-Hill pb [7/2000] for $12.10 Lippincott hardcover [8/75] out of print/used BooksOnTape UNABR audio [7/88] for $89.99 BooksOnTape audio [1/75] out of stock/used
	hardcover edition illustrated by Robert Crumb Dream Garden Press [3/85] for $26.99 "The Monkey Wrench Gang" feature film [release in 2008?]   Directed by Catherine Hardwicke video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb
	"Good News" [scifi novel 1980] E.P. Dutton 8x5.3 pb [1/91] for $11.20 E.P. Dutton pb [10/80] out of print/used
	"The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel" [1988] Henry Holt 8¼x5½ pb [8/98] for $11.20 Avon 8x5¼ pb [7/90] out of print/used Henry Holt hardcover [10/88] out of print/used
	"Hayduke Lives!: A Novel" [1989] {sequel to "The Monkey Wrench Gang"} Little, Brown 8¼x5½ pb [9/91] for $11.16 Little, Brown hardcover [1/90] out of print/used BooksOnTape UNABR audio [9/90] for $40.00

Non-Fiction  &  Anthologies

	"Postcards From Ed: Dispatches & Salvos From An American Iconoclast" [2006] Edited by David Petersen Milkweed hardcover [8/2006] for $16.47
	"Desert Solitaire: A Season In The Wilderness" [1968] Ballantine pb [4/91] for $6.99 Univ AZ Press hardcover [5/88] for $27.97 BooksOnTape UNABR audio [2/88] for $65.99 online excerpt paperback edition illustrated by Peter Parnall Touchstone 8.4x5.4 pb [1/90] for $10.40
	"Abbey's Road" [1979] Plume 8x5½ pb [1/91] for $10.50 Peter Smith Publng 8x5¼ hardcover [6/2002] out of print/rare
	"The Best of Edward Abbey" [1984] Edited by Edward Abbey Sierra Club Books 8¼x5¼ 2nd edition pb [7/2005] for $11.86 Sierra Club Books 8¼x5½ pb [3/88] out of print/many used
	"Slumgullion Stew: An Edward Abbey Reader" [1984] Dutton pb [11/84] out of print/used Dutton hardcover [11/84] out of print/used
	"Confessions of A Barbarian: Selections From The Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989" [1994] Edited by David Petersen Little, Brown 8½x5½ pb [3/96] for $19.99 Little, Brown hardcover [11/94] out of print/used
	"The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader" [1995] by Edward Abbey, edited by John Macrae Henry Holt 8x5½ pb [5/96] for $11.20 Henry Holt 9½x6½ hardcover [2/95] out of print/used

Works  About  Edward  Abbey

	"Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs" album [2004] by Tom Russell includes the song "The Ballad of Edward Abbey" Hightone Records audio CD [2/2004] for $17.98
	"Adventures With Ed: A Portrait of Abbey" [2002] Biographical memoir by Jack Loeffler Univ NM Press hardcover [1/2002] for $17.47
	"Edward Abbey: A Life" [2001] by James L. Cahalan Univ AZ Press 9½x6.4 hardcover [9/2001] for $19.57
	"Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life & Legacy of Edward Abbey" [1994] by James Bishop, Jr. Touchstone 8½x5½ pb [10/95] for $16.50 Atheneum 8½x6 hardcover [6/94] out of print/used
	"Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness" [1993 documentary feature; revised 2006] 2006 DVD available online at producer website Victory/Tapeworm color VHS [10/93] out of stock/used Canyon Productions website
	"The New West of Edward Abbey" [1988] by Ann Ronald Univ NV Press 9x6 pb [12/1000] for $13.27 Univ NV Press hardcover [5/88] out of print/used publisher bookpage

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