The Monkey Wrench Gang
By: Edward Abbey.
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Lippincott
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780397010844
Subjects: Environmentalists -- Fiction.; Environmental protection -- Fiction.; Southwestern States -- Fiction.
Description: 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.