Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction: Edward Abbey, Yesterday and Today 1
Part 1 Scholarly Perspectives
1 Equal Parts Anger and Love: A Posthumous Interview with Edward Abbey Kathleen Dean Moore 27
2 One Man's Terrorist: Reclaiming Edward Abbey for the Post-9/11 Era Michael Branch 35
3 Edward Abbey on Immigration John Alcock 43
4 Abbey in the Anthropocene Curt Meine 51
5 Abbey's Secret Ben A. Minteer 57
Part 2 Independent Authors
6 The View from Alaska Nancy Lord 65
7 A Meditation on Two Works by Ed Abbey Glenn Vanstrum 71
Part 3 Friends, Acquaintances, and Colleagues
8 Abbey's Road Edward Hoagland 83
9 Desert Solitaire Revisited Doug Peacock 91
10 Abbey Following His Own Truth Jack Loeffler 97
11 On the Edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives, and the Outlaws Charles Bowden 107
12 The Age of Abbey John A. Murray 123
Part 4 A New Generation
13 Faraway Genoa Alexander 167
14 Valle de la Luna Esther Rose Honig 171
Afterword 181
Appendix. The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel A Review by John A. Murray 197
Further Reading 201
Contributors 207
Index 213