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by Edward Abbey (Author) "Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project,..." (more)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 387 pages
  • Publisher: Avon Books; Reissue edition (Feb 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 038000741X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380007417
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 9.9 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 328,044 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ex-Green Beret Hayduke, Bronx expatriate Abbzug, outcast Morman Smith, and libertarian Sarvis, outraged by industry's and technology's plundering, destructive incursion into the Southwestern desert, undertake an un-American campaign of dismantling, bulldozing, roadblocking, dam-busting, and general sabotage.
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Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway-U.S. 66, later to be devoured by the superstate's interstate autobahn. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stark for grown-ups, 18 Jun 2002
This review is from: The Monkey Wrench Gang (Paperback)
The Green political movement does not have its equivalent of the Communist Manifesto, possibly because it does not have a single ideological strain. What it does have is The Monkey Wrench Gang for inspiration, to return to when campaigning and personality politics has left you jaded.

Telling the tale of an odd-ball quartet of radical environmentalists (monkey-wrenchers, so-called because they stick a literal and metaphorical monkey-wrench into the machinery of environmental degradation) as they look for ever more effective and devastating ways of preventing the rape of the American wilderness.

Accusations of racism and sexism would not be completely unfounded but Abbey was exploring new political terrain...

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best film never made, 16 Oct 2005
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Forget Indiana Jones....The Monkey Wrench Gang would make any of the Speilberg/Ford IJ franchise films look like earnest Chekov plays if it ever made it onto the silver screen.
Abbey writes a cinematic epic charged with humour,passion and love.
The love of wilderness and the loathing of capitalist 'progress' which sees the great canyons and deserts of the American South West raped in the name of commerce.
Abbey's hostility towards the corporate/government sponsored eco vandals and his direct action response articulated in the pages of TMWG, inspired those who shared his vision to create a powerful environmental group 'Earth First'.
Now... How many books can claim to have started a green revolution !
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5.0 out of 5 stars A funny but very stimulating view of environemtal issues, 1 Nov 1999
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I first encountered this book whilst travelling in Utah and Arizona many years ago. However, it remains a firm favorite and is a book I have recommended to many friends. Edward Abbey paints a picture of how we are destroying our environment with little regard for anything but monetary value. However. he wraps this message in a exciting story that is a is so much more than just a campaign gimmick. It is far from a 'heavy' read but underneath it packs a powerful punch.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Silent Spring
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2.0 out of 5 stars The fascist gun in the West...
'The Monkey Wrench Gang' is an affable potboiler. Edward Abbey might have read a book-or-two (and be keen to let you know it); but it's appropriate that his stylistic pretentions... Read more
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