Contents ( 49)
- Contents
- Editor’s Note
- I
- Ned: The Early Years
- 1927–37: Stump Creek, West Virginia
- Hallelujah on the Bum
- How It Was
- Drunk in the Afternoon
- Journal IV
- II
- Ed: The Early Years
- From The Fool’s Progress
- From The Brave Cowboy
- Manhattan Twilight, Hoboken Night
- Author’s Introduction to Desert Solitaire
- The First Morning
- The Serpents of Paradise
- Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks
- Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert
- Appalachian Pictures
- Appalachia, Good-bye
- My Life as a P.I.G., or The True Adventures of Smokey the Cop
- III
- Ed Moves On
- From Black Sun
- 1971–77: Henry in Love—An Interlude
- The Wooden Shoe Conspiracy
- The Raid at Comb Wash
- Death Valley Junk
- Meeting the Bear
- Aravaipa Canyon
- IV
- Postlude
- A Colorado River Journal
- From Good News
- Desert Images
- The Damnation of a Canyon
- Gather at the River
- River Solitaire
- Free Speech
- Theory of Anarchy
- Eco-Defense
- A Writer’s Credo
- Immigration and Liberal Taboos
- Abbey The Fool’s Progress
- Postlude
- A Few Words in Memory of Edward Abbey
- A Selected Bibliography of Works by Edward Abbey
- Acknowledgments
Down the River. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982.
The Fool’s Progress: An Honest Novel. New York: Henry Holt, 1988. Reprint. New York: Avon Books, 1990.
Good News: A Novel. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980.
Hayduke Lives! New York: Little, Brown, 1990.
The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey. Illustrated by John Blaustein. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West. Illustrated by Jim Stiles. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.
The Monkey Wrench Gang. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1975. Reprint. New York: Avon Books, 1976.
One Life at a Time, Please. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah. Illustrated by Philip Hyde. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1971.
Slumgullion Stew: An Edward Abbey Reader. Illustrated by the author. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984. Reprinted as The Best of Edward Abbey. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1986.
Acknowledgments
GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made to the following for permission to use selections by Edward Abbey: The Estate of Edward Abbey, by Don Congdon Associates, Inc.: “Drunk in the Afternoon”; Black Sun, copyright © 1971 by Edward Abbey; The Brave Cowboy, copyright © 1956 by Edward Abbey; Desert Solitaire, copyright © 1968 by Edward Abbey. HarperCollins Publishers: The Monkey Wrench Gang, copyright © 1975 by Edward Abbey. Henry Holt and Company: Beyond the Wall, copyright © 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1984 by Edward Abbey; The Fool’s Progress, copyright © 1988 by Edward Abbey; One Life at a Time, Please, copyright © 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 by Edward Abbey. Penguin Books USA: Abbey’s Road, copyright © 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 by Edward Abbey, used by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.; Appalachian Wilderness, copyright © 1970 by E.P. Dutton, Inc., used by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.; Down the River, copyright © 1982 by Edward Abbey, used by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.; Good News, copyright © 1980 by Edward Abbey, used by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.; The Hidden Canyon, copyright © 1977 by The Viking Press, Inc., used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA, Inc.; The Journey Home, copyright © 1977 by Edward Abbey, used by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.; Little, Brown & Co.: Confessions of a Barbarian, edited by David Petersen, copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Edward Abbey.
In addition, the publisher is grateful to Wendell Berry for permission to reprint “A Few Words in Memory of Edward Abbey,” from Sabbaths 1987–90 by Wendell Berry, copyright © 1992 by Wendell Berry, published by Golgonooza Press, Ipswich, England.

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