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The Monkey Wrench Gang. First edition cover (1975) .  \nIt’s a wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale of man against the big god machine—man against concrete, steel, man-made lakes and parking-lot wastelands. Flawlessly constructed, imaginatively detailed, faultlessly crafted with every effect looped to its matching cause, it’s a scriptwriter’s dream. What a thing of beauty is Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang.  \n—Houston Chronicle  \nAbbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1975.  \nThe Monkey Wrench Gang concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest. Abbey’s most famous fiction work is an account of four “environmental warriors”liberating parts of Utah and Arizona from evil road-builders, miners and rednecks. The book fueled a new generation of angry young environmentalists (such as Earth First!) who practice monkey-wrenching, or sabotage for the sake of protecting the wilderness. The book 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 topreserve wilderness, wild spaces, and ecosystems. (Text adapted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and [Abbeyweb.net](Abbeyweb.net) .)  \nBooks & Profiles Collection, Multimedia Library, Environment & Society Portal The Monkey Wrench Gang  \nSource URL: [http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6679](http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6679)  \nPrint date: 27 August 2026 07:32:56  \nFurther readings:  \n Cassuto, David N. Waging Water: Hydrology vs. Mythology in The Monkey Wrench Gang. In: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 2.1 (1994): 13–36.  \nRelated links:  \n Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia featuring this book  \n[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang)  \n “The Monkey Wrench Gang” at Abbey’s web  \n[http://www.abbeyweb.net/books/ea/monkey_wrench.html](http://www.abbeyweb.net/books/ea/monkey_wrench.html)  \n Earth First! and Wild Earth on the Environment & Society Portal  \n[http://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/collection/11571](http://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/collection/11571)  \nWebsites linked in this text:  \n [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang)  \n [http://www.abbeyweb.net/books/ea/monkey_wrench.html](http://www.abbeyweb.net/books/ea/monkey_wrench.html)  \nBooks & Profiles Collection, Multimedia Library, Environment & Society Portal The Monkey Wrench Gang  \nSource URL: [http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6679](http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6679)  \nPrint date: 27 August 2026 07:32:56","cbCaipbPF8voEZJ6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipbPF8voEZJ6","pdf",152127,"English","# Overview\n## Plot and themes\n## Cultural influence and terminology\n## References and related links","[{\"question\":\"What is The Monkey Wrench Gang about?\",\"answer\":\"It follows four “environmental warriors” who use sabotage to protest and disrupt environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of actions are targeted in the novel?\",\"answer\":\"The account focuses on liberating areas from road-builders, miners, and other agents of development that harm land and ecosystems.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the book influence environmental activism?\",\"answer\":\"The work helped popularize “monkey-wrench” as a term for sabotage and broader activism intended to protect wilderness and wild spaces.\"}]","The Monkey Wrench Gang - Books & Profiles | PDF"]