Ken Sanders muses on his friendship with author and essayist Edward Abbey, who died in 1989. The lecture takes place at Westminster College Jewett Center Vieve Gore concert hall on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at ...

The road trip from Moab, Utah, to Ajo, Ariz., is a sunbaked ramble through about 600 miles of dreamy, lethal desert, beginning with the red rocks of Utah’s Arches National Park, skirting Monument ...

If you love the great outdoors and specifically the American Southwest, chances are that you are at least somewhat familiar with the life and work of Edward Abbey. Born in Pennsylvania in 1927, Abbey ...

Rambling about Zion and Bryce Canyon and Arches by day and revisiting Abbey by night, I found that many of his observations and a few of his plaints still resonated forty years after the book was ...

%22Ed Abbey invented the Southwest we live in%2C%22 Tucson journalist Charles Bowden would write after Abbey%27s death. %22He made us look at it%2C and when we looked ...

Edward Abbey needed a day job. Writing novels didn’t pay well, so the aspiring author took part-time work with the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service as a fire lookout, a seasonal worker ...

Edward Abbey was known as Cactus Ed for his prickly disposition. “Postcards from Ed” shows the name was often well-deserved.The book is a compilation of letters he jotted down or banged out by ...

Edward Abbey wrote that part of love is anger, and Amy Irvine tries to untangle the two in her new book, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness (Torrey House Press; $12). The book is a ...

Fifty-three years ago, long before I had heard of Edward Abbey and Abraham Polonsky, I saw a film titled “Lonely are the Brave” that was based on Polonsky’s adaptation of Abbey’s novel “The Brave ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MOAB — Some vintage Detroit horsepower that the late author Edward Abbey bought himself as a 60th birthday treat now promises to nourish a new generation of ...

Ed Abbey wasn't born in the American West, but as awed immigrants to certain other mythic landscapes like to say, he got there as fast as he could. It was 1944 and Abbey was 17 when he found his ...