![]() Together, although not always working as a tightly knit team, they form the titular group dedicated to the destruction of what they see as the system that pollutes and destroys their environment, the American West. ![]() The book's four main characters are ecologically minded misfits-"Seldom Seen" Smith, a Jack Mormon river guide Doc Sarvis, an odd but wealthy and wise surgeon Bonnie Abbzug, his young Jewish feminist assistant and a rather eccentric Green Beret Vietnam veteran, George Hayduke. ![]() The most recent edition was released in 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Crumb's illustrations were used for a limited-edition calendar based on the book. Crumb, plus a chapter titled "Seldom Seen at Home" that had been deleted from the original edition. In 1985, Dream Garden Press released a special 10th Anniversary edition of the book featuring illustrations by R. ![]() The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.Ībbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench" has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems. ![]()
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