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1	Montana 1948 more books like this by Larry Watson, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. add to wishlist The narrator recalls an event from his boyhood that changed his family forever. In a small town composed of pioneer families and Native American residents, the boy's uncle is the local doctor and is suspected of sexually abusing his female Native American patients. Meanwhile the sheriff, who is also the doctor's brother, must decide how to walk ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Desert Solitaire more books like this by Abbey add to wishlist "A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist DESERT SOLITAIRE, widely considered to be one of Abbey's best books, is the account of two summers he spent in the canyon lands of southeastern Utah. First published in 1968, the book has acquired a huge following over the years, and stands as one of the author's most impassioned pleas for the preservation of the wilderness, and has become a ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist The vividly presented hero of this novel, Henry Holyoak Lightcap, is a misanthrope, a drunk, and a hell-raiser. When his third wife leaves him, he takes off for his home town in West Virginia, accompanied by a sick dog, to meet his demons. Edward Abbey always claimed that his 1988 novel is not autobiographical, but conceded that it had certain ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £12.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Monkey Wrench Gang more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist This justly popular underground classic is an ecologist's delight: a band of renegade activists set out to sabotage the developers who are taking over their beloved desert landscape. Abbey's famously crabby, indignant, and powerfully persuasive voice accounts for a large part of this book's wacky appeal. see all copies from £4.41! new only from £7.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Fire on the Mountain more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist Abbey's 1962 novel tells the story of an old rancher and his 12-year-old grandson. John Vogelin's property is threatened by a U.S. Air Force missile range that the government wants to extend to his land. Vogelin remains defiant, refusing to agree to the takeover and, in the end, demonstrating the power that a fully committed individual can wield ... see all copies from £3.85! new only from £8.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Flour Pot Cookie Book: Creating Edible Works of Art more books like this by Margie Greenberg, Abbey Greenberg add to wishlist This fun and fanciful exploration into the world of cookie decoration features designs for all occasions or for no occasion at all. Mother-and-daughter team Margie and Abby Greenberg show you how easy it is to make cookies, which are not only delicious, but beautiful too, and that will make great gifts all year round. With more than 40 decoration ... see all copies from £6.02! new only from £6.61!
8	Hayduke Lives! more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist The sequel to "The Monkey Wrench" featuring the ex-Green Beret George Washington Hayduke who was thought dead, but lives to fight again. The author has also written "Desert Solitaire" and "Fool's Progress". see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.70! \| first editions
9	Get Shorty more books like this by Elmore Leonard add to wishlist A mobster goes from running the business in Miami to making movies in Hollywood, and finds that his new career isn't such a switch after all. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Journey Home more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist A portrait of the American West and a plea for its conservation--Abbey's first non-fiction book since his influential and acclaimed DESERT SOLITAIRE. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Black Sun more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist This 1971 novel, one of Abbey's own favorites, is about a 30-something professor named Will Gatlin who gives us his job, leaves his wife, and heads for the Rocky Mountains to become a fire ranger. Widely considered to be autobiographical, the novel is one of Abbey's most romantic and lyrical. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains more books like this by Eliot Porter add to wishlist Eliot Porter supplies the photographs and Edward Abbey tells the sad story of the land's deterioration in this tribute to the monumental beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains, first published in 1970. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £29.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Abbey's Road more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist The maverick travel writer and environmentalist Edward Abbey, known principally for his distinctively American writing, provides more of the same in this evocative book of essays, but he also ventures outside the States and travels to Scotland, Australia, and the bleak Isla de la Sombra in Mexico. see all copies from £5.43! new only from £7.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The complete book of knitting more books like this by Barbara Abbey add to wishlist Excellent guide for learning how to knit well, undertake new projects, and even create new designs. All basic procedures thoroughly explained--from casting on and binding off, to inserting zippers and lining garments. Over 500 illustrations show how to knit and purl, increase and decrease stitches, knit left-handed, knit with more than one color, ... see all copies from £5.23! new only from £44.71! \| first editions
15 view cover	Brave Cowboy more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist The Brave Cowboy Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West -- a once beautiful land smothered beneanth airstrips and superhighways. And he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course with the keepers of law and order. Now he has stepped ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.28! \| first editions
16 view cover	One Life at a Time, Please more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist Essays by Abbey on politics, traveling, literature, art, nature, and his own credo as a writer. see all copies from £6.43! new only from £6.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Down the River more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist This collection of short stories is mainly about rivers: the joys of floating down them and the dangers to their existence posed by the modern world. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist Edward Abbey goes beyond the wall of the city to write about the deserts and the rivers where he feels truly at home. Hiking the desert, traveling the river, Abbey looks not only into his environment and man's effect on it, but into the wilderness of the human heart and soul. These ten essays are reprinted from introductions Abbey has written for ... see all copies from £5.15! new only from £6.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years more books like this by Outside Magazine (Editor), Cutside Magazine (Editor), Edward Abbey (Adapted by) add to wishlist The editors of the award-winning "Outside" magazine have selected over 30 essays that together compose some of the finest nonfiction gathered anywhere. Authors include Sebastian Junger, Jon Krakauer, E. Annie Proulx, Jane Smiley, and Tim Cahill. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.81! \| first editions
20 view cover	Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast more books like this by Edward Abbey, David Petersen (Editor) add to wishlist "But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books." And write letters Ed Abbey did. In his famous -- or infamous -- 45-year career, Abbey's cards and letters became as legendary as his books for their wit, vitriol, and ability to speak truth to power. Published here for the first time, the letters offer a fascinating, often ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.38! \| first editions
21	Hospitality sales and marketing more books like this by James R Abbey add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £16.10!
22	Aftermath/Tw 10 more books like this by Robert Asprin, Lynn Abbey add to wishlist In this explosive tenth volume, Tempus and the Stepsons abandon the war-torn city of Sanctuary--as vicious rivalries emerge from the rubble. The fate of the city hangs in the balance as the struggle for power begins. see all copies from £4.99! first editions
23 view cover	Good News more books like this by Edward Abbey add to wishlist Edward Abbey's futuristic fable presents a world that is, in Abbey's view, a logical outcome of the course being taken by American society in the 20th century. All systems have broken down, and the world has evolved into a society in which two rival ways of life head for a confrontation: a pastoral community of peaceful whites and Native Americans ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey more books like this by John Blaustein (Photographer), Edward Abbey, Martin Litton (Introduction by) add to wishlist Edward Abbey contributes to this chronicle of a journey down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. see all copies from £6.91! new only from £53.84! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Wings of Omen more books like this by Robert Asprin add to wishlist see all copies from £3.04! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions

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