Edward Abbey...the quintessential desert anarchist. The voice of the American Southwest

Novelist, essayist, naturalist, philospher and social critic, the late Edward Abbey may have been the most popular writer to take the American Southwest as his subject. He was also an impassioned critic of the increasing exploitation of the wilderness by governmental, industrial and ranching interests, as well as by the tourist industry. Abbey's writings are a fresh and true today as they ever were.