Finding Abbey [electronic resource] : The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
- Author
- Prentiss, Sean, 1972-
- Published
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (157 pages)
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- Contents
- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Beginning a Journey -- Chapter 1: Searching Home -- Chapter 2: The Abbey Family Grave -- Chapter 3: Headed North -- Chapter 4: The Unknown, the Unknowable, the Mystery -- Chapter 5: The Movement West -- Chapter 6: This Is Home -- Chapter 7: Talking Politics with Jack Loeffler -- Chapter 8: The Valley of Shining Stone -- Chapter 9: Talking Passion with David Petersen -- Chapter 10: The Solving of the Everett Ruess Mystery -- Chapter 11: Brightest New Mexico -- Chapter 12: Reexamining Everett Ruess -- Chapter 13: Being Industrial Tourists in Arches National Park -- Chapter 14: Pack Creek Ranch -- Chapter 15: Talking Eco-sabotage with Ken "Seldom Seen" Sleight -- Chapter 16: Where the Sun Lingers Longest -- Chapter 17: A Midday Beer at Woody's Famous Tavern -- Chapter 18: Hard Times in Hoboken Town -- Chapter 19: A Finger on a Map, Pointing -- Chapter 20: Tucson and Abbey's Last Stand -- Chapter 21: Ajo Bound -- Chapter 22: In the Desert with Doug Peacock -- Chapter 23: An Unnamed Desert -- Chapter 24: Sand and Dust and Heat and Emptiness -- Chapter 25: Abbey Country -- Chapter 26: The Blank Spot on the Map -- Chapter 27: Anywhere. Here. -- Epilogue: The Journey Home -- Appendix: Directions to Edward Abbey's Grave -- Edward Abbey Chronology -- Edward Abbey Bibliography -- Works Cited.
- Summary
- ""Prentiss reveals the power of Ed Abbey's lasting call to action, not just as a Monkey Wrencher, but also as an ethicist who lives by Ed's own motto, 'Follow the truth no matter where it leads.'""--Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey.
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- ISBN
- 0826355927
9780826355928 (electronic bk.)
9780826355911 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826355919 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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