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Doug Peacock spent years alone with grizzly bears in the Yellowstone backcountry, trying to recover from Vietnam. The bears were his therapy. The wilderness was his refuge. Peacock was the model for Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang, and this book explains why.

Abbey's collected essays — the best of his shorter nonfiction, from desert solitude to environmental rage to the pleasure of watching a rattlesnake. The one-volume introduction to Abbey's voice.