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092    BIO|bABBEY 
100 1  Gessner, David,|d1961- 
245 10 All the wild that remains :|bEdward Abbey, Wallace Stegner,
       and the American West /|cDavid Gessner. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2015] 
300    354 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and 
       index. 
520    Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated 
       Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western
       landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner 
       follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-
       environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in 
       Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches 
       National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking 
       how they speak to the lives of all those who care about 
       the West.  These two great westerners had very different 
       ideas about what it meant to love the land and try to care
       for it, and they did so in distinctly different styles. 
       Boozy, lustful, and irascible, Abbey was best known as the
       author of the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (and also of 
       the classic nature memoir Desert Solitaire), famous for 
       spawning the idea of guerrilla actions known to admirers 
       as "monkeywrenching" and to law enforcement as domestic 
       terrorism to disrupt commercial exploitation of western 
       lands. By contrast, Stegner, a buttoned-down, disciplined,
       faithful family man and devoted professor of creative 
       writing, dedicated himself to working through the system 
       to protect western sites such as Dinosaur National 
       Monument in Colorado.  In a region beset by droughts and 
       fires, by fracking and drilling, and by an ever-growing 
       population that seems to be in the process of loving the 
       West to death, Gessner asks: how might these two farseeing
       environmental thinkers have responded to the crisis?  
600 10 Abbey, Edward,|d1927-1989. 
600 10 Stegner, Wallace,|d1909-1993. 
650  0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Environmentalists|vBiography. 
650  0 Conservationists|vBiography. 
650  0 Environmentalism in literature. 
650  0 Environmentalism|zWest (U.S.) 
651  0 West (U.S.)|xEnvironmental conditions.