New Releases by Edward Abbey

Les intégrales Gallmeister Retrouvez dans une intégrale inédite les livres d''Edward Abbey ! Cette intégrale contient : - Le retour du gang - Désert solitaire - Le Gang de la clef à molette - Un fou ordinaire - Le feu sur la montagne - En descendant la rivière - Seuls sont les indomptés Icône de la contre-culture, “pionnier d’une prise de conscience” écologiste aux États-Unis, “héros subversif de l’underground”, et même “Thoreau de l’Ouest“, Edward Abbey est un auteur culte doté d’une préscience quasi prophétique, à qui on doit certaines des plus belles pages jamais écrites sur le désert. Ses livres, plus que jamais d’actualité, donnent la parole à un Ouest sauvage, libre, indompté, et par-dessus tout menacé.

« Au-delà du mur de la ville irréelle, au-delà des enceintes de sécurité coiffées de fil de fer barbelé et de tessons de bouteille, au-delà des périphériques d''asphalte à huit voies, au-delà des berges bétonnées de nos rivières temporairement barrées et mutilées, au-delà de la peste des mensonges qui empoisonnent l''atmosphère, il est un autre monde qui vous attend. C''est l''antique et authentique monde des déserts, des montagnes, des forêts, des îles, des rivages et des plaines. Allez-y. Vivez-y. Marchez doucement et sans bruit jusqu''en son cœur. » Ainsi parle Edward Abbey au début d''Un fou ordinaire. Tour à tour contestataire, contemplatif ou irrévérencieux, toujours profondément sincère, ce livre est la déclaration d''amour d''un des plus grands auteurs américains aux immensités sauvages de l''Ouest.

Révoltés de voir le somptueux désert de l’Ouest défiguré par les industriels, quatre insoumis décident d’entrer en lutte contre la « Machine ». Un vétéran du Vietnam accro à la bière et aux armes à feu, un chirurgien incendiaire entre deux âges, sa superbe maîtresse et un mormon nostalgique et polygame commencent à détruire ponts, routes et voies ferrées qui balafrent le désert. Armés de simples clefs à molette – et de quelques bâtons de dynamite –, ils doivent affronter les représentants de l’ordre et de la morale lancés à leur poursuite. Commence alors une longue traque dans le désert.

Un recueil visionnaire, entre amour de la nature et rage face à sa destruction annoncée. Exploration des derniers grands espaces américains, ce recueil rempli d''aubes enflammées, de rivières brillantes et de canyons radieux invite à la méditation. Mais la beauté incomparable de l''Ouest sauvage ne peut faire oublier sa fragilité. Dans les pas d''Henry David Thoreau, Abbey dénonce avec passion les coups portés à notre patrimoine naturel au nom du progrès, du profit ou de la sécurité, et se déchaîne contre la cupidité humaine. Avec En descendant la rivière, nous retrouvons l''Edward Abbey poète et provocateur à son meilleur, au moment où nous avons le plus besoin de lui.

Three wild and suspenseful novels about standing your ground against the forces of destruction by the author of Desert Solitaire. From the beloved author and passionate advocate for the wilderness, these three novels follow some very memorable characters in their battles against strip miners, clear cutters, and government agencies destroying the environment: Fire on the Mountain: A New Mexico man faces off against everyone from the Atomic Energy Commission to the U.S. Air Force in a battle to keep his land . . . "One of the very best writers to deal with the American West."— The Washington Post The Monkey Wrench Gang: A motley crew of saboteurs wreak outrageous havoc on the corporations destroying the wilderness in this "wildly funny" tale ( The Houston Chronicle). "Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more."— The San Francisco Chronicle Hayduke Lives!: George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he''s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . "Abbey''s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back—and not a moment too soon." — The New York Times "I laughed out loud reading this book." — Los Angeles Times Book Review

Toute sa vie, John Vogelin a vécu sur son ranch, une étendue de terre desséchée par le soleil éclatant du Nouveau-Mexique et miraculeusement épargnée par la civilisation. Un pays ingrat mais somptueux, qui pour lui signifie bien davantage qu''une exploitation agricole. Comme chaque été, son petit-fils Billy, douze ans, traverse les États-Unis pour venir le rejoindre. Cette année-là, Billy découvre le ranch au bord de l''insurrection : l''US Air Force s''apprête à réquisitionner la propriété afin d''installer un champ de tir de missiles. Mais le vieil homme ne l''entend pas ainsi. Et Billy compte bien se battre à ses côtés. Le portrait d''un homme qui se bat pour ses idées, et celui d''un enfant qui réalise le prix de la liberté.

''My favourite book about the wilderness'' Cheryl Strayed, author of WildIn this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service.Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert; a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand sage. His summers become spirit quests, taking him in search of wild horses and Ancient Puebloan petroglyphs, up mountains and across tribal lands, and down the Glen Canyon by river. He experiences both sides of his new home; its incredible beauty and its promise of liberation, but also its isolating, cruel side, at one point discovering a dead tourist at an isolated area of the Grand Canyon.In his own irascible style, Abbey uses his time in the desert to meditate on the tension between nature and civilisation, and outlines a personal philosophy that would come to heavily influence the environmentalist movement. Now published in a special edition to celebrate its 50th Anniversary, this classic seems remarkably prescient, and has lost none of its power.

Le super-excavateur géant Goliath, le plus terrifiant engin jamais construit par l’homme, menace de saccager les déserts de l’Ouest américain. Les membres du Gang de la Clef à Molette sont bien décidés à enrayer la course du titan. Entre cette bande de quatre insoumis et la machine industrielle s’engage un combat désespéré. Les usines explosent, les bulldozers s’évanouissent dans la nature... Contre l’asservissement des esprits, tous les coups sont permis ! Suite du mythique Gang de la Clef à Molette, Le Retour du Gang, révolte nostalgique et chant d’amour aux espaces sauvages, est le dernier roman d’Edward Abbey.

Au milieu des années 1950, Jack Burns reste un solitaire, un homme hors du temps. Il s’obstine à parcourir le Nouveau-Mexique à cheval, vit de petits boulots et dort à la belle étoile. Lorsqu’il apprend que son ami Paul vient d’être incarcéré pour avoir refusé de se soumettre à ses obligations militaires, Jack décide de se faire arrêter. Retrouver Paul en prison et s’évader ensemble, tel est son plan. Mais il n’imaginait pas que son évasion déclencherait une traque d’une telle ampleur. Nul ne peut impunément entraver la marche de l’ordre et du progrès. Seuls sont les indomptés est un chef-d’œuvre d’Edward Abbey, auteur insoumis et emblématique de l’Ouest américain, qui dévoile avec cette échappée sauvage le prix à payer pour la liberté.

A mix of fiction and essays by the author described as "the Thoreau of the American West" (Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post). Edward Abbey himself compiled this volume representing some of his greatest work—including selections from such novels as The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and Black Sun, as well as a number of expressive and acerbic essays. Renowned for inspiring modern environmentalists—though his interests ranged as widely as the landscapes he loved—Abbey offers an entertaining introduction to his writing, including excerpts from the autobiographical Desert Solitaire, in addition to his own sketches illustrating the text throughout.

"Abbey''s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back—and not a moment too soon" ( The New York Times). George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he''s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . This sequel to Edward Abbey''s cult classic brings back the old gang of environmental warriors, as they battle a fundamentalist preacher intent on turning the Grand Canyon into a uranium mine—in "a fine novel, combative and comic, anarchistic and ultimately redemptive" ( Albuquerque Journal). "I laughed out loud reading this book." — Los Angeles Times Book Review

A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America''s Western wilderness in this "wildly funny, infinitely wise" classic ( The Houston Chronicle). When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved over by greedy government hacks and their corrupt corporate coconspirators. And the manic, beer-guzzling, rabidly antisocial ex-Green Beret isn''t just getting mad. Hayduke plans to get even. Together with a radical feminist from the Bronx; a wealthy, billboard-torching libertarian MD; and a disgraced Mormon polygamist, Hayduke''s ready to stick it to the Man in the most creative ways imaginable. By the time they''re done, there won''t be a bridge left standing, a dam unblown, or a bulldozer unmolested from Arizona to Utah. Edward Abbey''s most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental movement. The author who Larry McMurtry ( Lonesome Dove) once dubbed "The Thoreau of the American West" has written a true comedic classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all "praise the earth for Edward Abbey!" "Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more."— The San Francisco Chronicle

A cowboy takes on the forces of twentieth century tyranny in a tale by "the Thoreau of the American West" that became the classic film Lonely Are the Brave (Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove). A rugged individualist and sometime ranch hand, Jack Burns has no love for the modern world. He is a man out of time, riding his horse through a Southwestern landscape corrupted by concrete, shopping centers, and superhighways. A stubborn loner, he lives by a personal moral code that often sets him at odds with contemporary society. And he wouldn''t have it any other way. When Jack''s brazen attempt to free a jailed friend fails, the "anarchist cowboy" becomes an outlaw overnight. Suddenly he and his chestnut mare are racing toward the New Mexican high country with the state police, the military, and the FBI in hot pursuit. His private war against authority has reached a dangerous new level. But if the powerful forces aligning against him think that Jack is going to go quietly, they''ve got another think coming. The Houston Chronicle called Edward Abbey "a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier." The bestselling author of The Monkey Wrench Gang delivers a stirring tribute to individualism and the vanishing American hero. Brought to the big screen in 1962 as Lonely Are the Brave—a major motion picture starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau— The Brave Cowboy is a moving and thought-provoking fable of the modern American West.

"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 hilarious glimpse into the mind of one of America''s most iconoclastic and beloved authors. No subject was too banal, too arcane, or too deep for Abbey to expound on: sex, cheerleaders, Mormons, Aspen, and the Bond girls are covered as gleefully as Stegner, Dylan, Chomsky, Buddhism, and betrayal. Whether scolding an editor to simplify ("I''ve had to waste hours erasing that storm of fly-shit on the typescript") or skewering the chicken-hawk proponents of the war in Vietnam, Abbey''s righteous indignation gives hope and inspiration to a generation that desperately needs both.

Abbey''s explorations include the familiar territory of the Rio Grande in Texas, Canyonlands National Park, and Lake Powell in Utah. He also takes readers to such varied places as Scotland, the interior of Australia, the Sierra Madre, and Isla de la Sombra in Mexico.

The environmentalist author of Desert Solitaire presents an autobiographical novel of an aging man''s anarchic journey across America in search of home. The Fool''s Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tucson at age sixty two. When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West Virginia. Accompanied only by his dying dog and his memories, the irascible warhorse (a stand-in for the "real" Abbey) begins a bizarre cross-country odyssey—determined to make peace with his past—and to wage one last war against the ravages of "progress." "A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force." — The Chicago Tribune

"[From] a true independent, a self-declared extremist and ''desert mystic''. . . . outstanding essays, travel pieces, and works of fiction" — Booklist This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel writing and fictions to reveal Ed''s life directly, in his own words. The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey''s life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what''s happening in the author''s life at the time. When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided. "This anthology, edited by his longtime editor and friend Macrae, makes for a splendid summary of his best work. . . . Anyone who doesn''t already know his work will find this volume, culled from more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, an addictive introduction." — Publishers Weekly "If your library is Abbey-deficient, this collection is essential." — Library Journal "The announcement of a new Abbey book, whether essays or fiction, stirs a personal craving no other current American writer can satisfy." — Los Angeles Book Review "A record as important and lovely as Muir''s and Thoreau''s." —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Abbey''s work is a kind of blessed voice in the wilderness any way you take it, and a precious figure in our lethal time." —W.S. Merwin, US Poet Laureate

Ce livre, un des plus beaux inspirés par le désert américain, est un chant d''amour à la sauvagerie du monde. C''est aussi un terrible coup de colère : après avoir connu la vie solitaire et sauvage dans un coin perdu de l''Utah, l''auteur revient dix ans plus tard pour découvrir que, là aussi, le " progrès " est passé. " Un chef-d''œuvre... Edward Abbey est le gardien du monde " (Yves Berger, La Pierre et le Saguaro). " Le Thoreau de l''Ouest américain " (Larry Mc Murtry).

Down the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free, and the grandeur of nature gives rise to meditations on everything from the life of Henry David Thoreau to the militarization of the open range. At the same time, it is an impassioned condemnation of what is being done to our natural heritage in the name of progress, profit, and security. Filled with fiery dawns, wild and shining rivers, and radiant sandstone canyons, it is charged as well with heartfelt, rampageous rage at human greed, blindness, and folly. It is, in short, Edward Abbey at his best, where and when we need him most.

Anthology of rural American writing by contemporary writers filled with humor, tragedy, and down home characters.

In this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico.

Jack, an old man in search of his son, and Sam, a Harvard-educated Indian, face the dictator and his nasty band of killers who are taking over the South.

David Muench''s large scale color photos of the American Southwest''s desert beauties and natural wonders are accompanied by nature writing from the renowned author Edward Abbey.