The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975. Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel...
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melee weapon. Adjustable spanner/wrench Pipe wrench or Stillson wrench Plumber wrench The Monkey Wrench Gang "monkey wrench, n.", OED Online, Oxford University...
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Hayduke Lives!, written in 1989 by Edward Abbey, is the sequel to the popular book The Monkey Wrench Gang. It was published posthumously in 1990 in a mildly...
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George Hayduke (character) (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
character in Edward Abbey's novels The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives! Hayduke is portrayed as a rugged individualist in the books by Abbey, and has a predilection...
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Edward Abbey (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert...
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character from Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. It was created by Mike Coronella and Joe Mitchell, both of Utah, as the combination of several treks...
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Ecotage (redirect from Monkey-wrenching)
ecotage was popularized in Edward Abbey's 1975 anarchistic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and its sequel Hayduke Lives! (1990). It has also been treated in...
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Hayduke (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
the name of George Washington Hayduke, a fictional character based on Edward Abbey's friend Doug Peacock in Abbey's cult classics The Monkey Wrench Gang...
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and The Monkey Wrench Gang both sold more than a half million copies. According to James M. Cahalan's biography of Abbey, Edward Abbey: A Life, The New...
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Jack Mormon (section Origin of the term)
his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang to describe a character, Seldom Seen Smith, who was a Mormon and had many wives, but was not active in the LDS Church...
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his book The Monkey Wrench Gang that involves sabotaging equipment that is environmentally damaging. Tre Arrow Dave Foreman – arrested by the FBI for conspiracy...
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Ecodefense (category 1985 in the environment)
Abbey. Much of the inspiration for the book, as well as the term "monkeywrenching", came from Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. Other inspiration...
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Washington Hayduke III, created by Edward Abbey in his 1975 book The Monkey Wrench Gang, and 1990 book Hayduke Lives!. Often in collaboration with perhaps...
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Robert Crumb (category Counterculture of the 1960s)
series of illustrations for the tenth anniversary edition of Edward Abbey's environmental-themed novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, published in 1985 by Dream...
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Ecotage! (category 1972 in the environment)
novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. The book was inspired by the actions of an individual who operated in the Chicago, Illinois area. Calling himself "The Fox"...
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work, The Monkey Wrench Gang, which concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest, The Fool's...
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Green anarchism (redirect from Green anarchism in the United States)
sabotage actions "monkey-wrenching", after Edward Abbey's 1984 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. During the 1990s, the road protest movements in the United Kingdom...
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Alex (29 July 2012). "The Fretful Birth of the New Western". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 July 2012. "The Monkey Wrench Gang" at IMDb. Portals: Books...
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Retrieved February 9, 2017. Erisman, Fred (1979). "A Variant Text of the Monkey Wrench Gang". Western American Literature. 14 (3): 227–228. doi:10.1353/wal...
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Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (category 1991 in the environment)
inspiration for Earth First! from Edward Abbey's book The Monkey Wrench Gang which is a fictional account of a gang of four individuals who take on a pointless...
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Earth First! (category Environmental organizations based in the United States)
Carson's Silent Spring, Aldo Leopold's land ethic, and Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, a small group of environmental activists composed of Dave Foreman...
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The seminal work of fiction featuring eco-terrorism as a major focal point is Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, wherein a group of environmentalists...
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Ned Ludd (category People of the Industrial Revolution)
is given a similar status to Henry Ford in Brave New World. The novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), by Edward Abbey, is dedicated to Ned Ludd. Ecodefense:...
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Doug Peacock (category United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War)
novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. Doug is the co-founder of several conservation organizations including Round River Conservation Studies and Save The Yellowstone...
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Night Moves (2013 film) (category Films about terrorism in the United States)
Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, planned to be adapted into an authorized film by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. The lawsuit charged: By way...
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opposed the private sector from developing on natural lands, arguments which were explored in later books such as The Monkey Wrench Gang through the novel's...
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1975 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
at the University of Rennes. The Petrarca-Preis is founded by Hubert Burda. Chabua Amirejibi – Data Tutashkhia Edward Abbey – The Monkey Wrench Gang Dritëro...
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The Dispossessed". Gizmodo. Retrieved 8 August 2019. McFarlane, Robert (25 September 2009). "Rereading: Robert Macfarlane on The Monkey Wrench Gang"...
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environmental movement mentioned in the text: Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac (1949) John...
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environmental destruction, primarily of the American West. Inspired by the Edward Abbey novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, Earth First! made use of such techniques...
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