The anarchist who taught eco-terrorists to love poetry and blow up bulldozers.
A resistance writer and pioneer of nature writing with a controversial personality, Edward Abbey wrote more than twenty books on the theme of eternal nature. A gem of counterculture, his 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang inspired a generation of environmental activists and readers with rebellious souls. Portrait of a rebellious, lyrical, and rude writer.
Writing
Abbey's prose still burns—lyrical, crude, and unapologetically alive.
Direction
Co-directors Quin and Frey let contradictions breathe.
Director
Jérémy Frey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Earth First! and modern climate activists like Extinction Rebellion trace direct lineage to Abbey's 'desert anarchism.'
Abbey requested burial in the Arizona desert with no coffin—illegal, naturally. Friends smuggled his body in a sleeping bag.
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