The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel about ecotage in the southwest of the USA, written by the American writer Edward Abbey and released in 1975.

The book is about four in some ways not appropriate in society Americans who are aware of the importance of the environment and the threats that the technological and economic progress for the southwest of the us.Sabotage techniques they use to achieve their goals: they organize attacks on bulldozers and trains and dream of becoming ever to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam . The servants of the law are them soon on the foot.

The Monkey Wrench Gang was one of the sources of inspiration for the founders of the radical environmental group [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEarth_First! Earth First!] and made sure a monkeywrench term ecotage or sabotage was to protect the environment.

There appeared posthumously In 1990 a sequel to the novel, Hayduke Lives .