Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Abbey's novel about a New Mexico rancher fighting the government's attempt to seize his land for a missile range. Less well-known than his desert nonfiction but equally defiant. The old man on the mountain is Abbey's purest fictional self.

Four misfits wage war on development in the American Southwest — burning billboards, cutting fences, and plotting to blow up Glen Canyon Dam. Funny, profane, and dead serious about the land it loves. The book that launched environmental direct action.