'Keep it like it was..."
This is the underlying principle beneath Edward Abbey's best-known work, The Monkey Wrench Gang. This rollicking novel, which was the inspiration for the real-life environmental radicals Earth First!, follows four misfits as they fight to protect the beautiful desert southwest from developers by perpetrating acts of "ecotage" (or "ecoterrorism," depending on who you talk to) such as pulling up survey stakes, trashing bulldozers, and blowing up bridges. Whatever feelings you may have about their strategy or their actions, its hard not to get caught up in the humor and the excitement of this farcical adventure.
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