Down the River

New
Illustrated
1991
$19.23

$19.23

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 256
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 26 Sep 1991
ISBN 10: 0452265630
ISBN 13: 9780452265639

Media Reviews

Abbey's unique prose voice... is the voice of a full-blooded man airing his passions... alternately misanthropic and sentimental, enraged and hilarious. --People

The man, quite simply, is a master. --The Bloomsbury Review

A record as important and lovely as Muir's or Thoreau's. --New York Post

One of our foremost Western essayists and novelists. A militant conservationist, he has attracted a large following--not only within the ranks of Sierra Club enthusiasts and backpackers, but also among armchair appreciators of good writing. What always made his work doubly interesting is the sense of a true maverick spirit at large--a kind of spirit not imitable, limited only to the highest class of literary outlaws. --The Denver Post

Abbey is a gadfly with a stinger like a scorpion. --Wallace Stegner

In his own inimitable fashion, Abbey prevails among the scant handful of our best and brightest fresh-air scribes. --Chicago Sun-Times

Author Bio

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.