The son of a farmer, Abbey loved the world around him. The actor Kirk Douglas bought a copy of The Brave Cowboy in 1960 and liked it so much that he insisted that Universal Pictures fund a film version. It appeared in cinemas two years later under the title 'Lonely Are The Brave', and starred Douglas himself along with Walter Matthau. Edward Abbey died at home in 1989 after several spells in hospital. He was buried in the Arizona desert.
Civilization remains a remote ideal.'.
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