Sabotage and Social War Kasimere Bran 2006 28p 4 x 5 Originally published in the first issue of A Murder of Crows, this pamphlet is a good explanation about how individual acts can fit into collective revolt and not become isolate in specialized armed struggle. Fire at Midnight PDF ¢35-$2 Other works involving … Continue reading Fire at Midnight, Destruction at Dawn
The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey James Bishop 1994 272p 6 x 8 Ed Abbey became an anarchist during a time in the U.S. when few people were. Through Abbey’s own writings and personal papers, as well as interviews with friends and acquaintances, Bishop gives us a penetrating, compelling view of the life and … Continue reading Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist
Edward Abbey 1969 269p MMPB Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in the wilderness and the nature of the desert itself by the (at the time) park ranger and conservationist, Edward Abbey. The book details the unique adventures and conflicts the author faces, from dealing with the damage caused by development of … Continue reading Desert Solitaire
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England William Cronon 1983 288p 5 x 8 William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists’ sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Changes in the Land provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land … Continue reading Changes in the Land
Humanity’s Next Great Adventure Daniel Quinn 2000 202p 5 x 8 A sort of theoretical follow-up to Ishmael, in which Quinn studies ancient civilizations – Maya, Olmec – and gather/hunter groups. Quinn’s setting forth ideas for what a future society could look like, encouraging diversity over the nightmare of hierarchy and homogeneity in civilization. $3-10 … Continue reading Beyond Civilization
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Daniel Quinn 1992 263p 5 x 8 The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an … Continue reading Ishamael
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations Clive Ponting 1991 400p 5 x 8 An interpretation of world history from a “green” perspective. In place of political, military and diplomatic events the author considers the fundamental environmental forces that have shaped human history and how and why humans … Continue reading A Green History of the World
The Warriors and Legacy of Oka Loreen Pindera & Geoffrey York 1991 425p 6 x 9 In 1990, after the announcement to expand the local 9-hole golf course to an 18-hole one right through a Mohawk cemetery, a small band of women blocking the development and years of disappointment, manipulation, exploitation and genocide soon inspire … Continue reading The People of the Pines
Fredy Perlman 1983 296p 5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor. $7-15 Other works involving fredy perlman, civilization, the wild, technology, recuperation, progress, primitivism, heresy, patriarchy, first nations struggles, peasant revolts, monarchs, nature, slave … Continue reading Against His-Story, Against Leviathan