Walking It Off: Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness

Book Description

Salt Lake City, UT Dream Garden Press - Ken Sanders Rare Books 2005 Hardcover Hayduke edition 196pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth with "Hayduke" blind stamped on front board. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Hayduke illustration by R. Crumb also signed by the author and laid in.  This is the special "Hayduke" edition of the author's memoir about war, wilderness and the late author Edward Abbey. Abbey immortalized Peacock as the George Washington Hayduke character from the celebrated novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. R. Crumb rendered Hayduke for the 1985 hardbound edition of The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. This is one of one hundred specially bound and signed copies by Doug Peacock issued in hardbound by Dream Garden Press. The regular trade edition was only issued in paperback. This is the only hardbound edition available. A new memoir by the author of "The Grizzly Years" and the inspiration for the Hayduke character in Edward Abbey's classic "The Monkey Wrench Gang." Peacock recounts his experiences returning from Vietnam and his long friendship with Abbey.

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