Fire on the Mountain By Edward Abbey

After nine months away at school, Billy Vogelin Star returns home to New Mexico to find his grandfather fighting to keep his land from the US government—who wants to make it part of the White Sands Missile Range. Together, Billy and his grandfather stand their ground to preserve land that’s inexorably tied to their family history.

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Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania in 1927. In 1944, at the age of 17, Abbey set out to explore the American Southwest, bumming around the country by hitchhiking and hopping freight trains. It was during this time that Abbey developed a love of the desert, which would shape his life and his art for the next forty years. After a brief stint in the military, Abbey completed his education at the University of New Mexico and later, at the University of Edinburgh. He took employment as a park ranger and fire lookout at several different National Parks throughout his life, experiences from which he drew for his many books. Abbey died at his home in Oracle, Arizona in 1989.

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