Down the River - Hardcover

Abbey, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525095241 ISBN 13: 9780525095248

Publisher: E. P. Dutton, New York, 1982

Synopsis

"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.

Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes a hard look at the MX missile system, slated for the American West. "For 23 years now I've been floating rivers. Always downstream, the easy and natural way. The way Huck Finn and Jim did it, LaSalle and Marquette, the mountain men, and Major Powell."

"Abbey's the original fly in the ointment. Give him money and prizes. Don't let anything happen to him." --Thomas McGuane

About this title

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6 1.5-hour cassettes

About the Author:

Edward Abbey, a self-proclaimed “agrarian anarchist,” was hailed as the “Thoreau of the American West.” Known nationally as a champion of the individual and one of this country’s foremost defenders of the natural environment, he was the author of twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, and The Journey Home. In 1989, at the age of sixty-two, Edward Abbey died in Oracle, Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: E. P. Dutton, New York
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0525095241
• ISBN 13: 9780525095248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242