This Day in History: 1927-01-29

Edward Abbey is  born this day in 1927. Abbey was the author of 21 books, including The Monkey Wrench Gang, a 1975 book about sabotage (“monkey wrenching”) as environmental activism. Abbey’s non-fiction Desert Solitaire, published in 1968, describes life in the southeastern Utah canyonlands, and has been compared with Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.