When the best and brightest environmentalists took off for a volcanic desert in Mexico, nobody knew they would come back as Earth First!, the radical movement of the 1980s. Nearly four decades before biologist E.O. Wilson’s modest proposal to set aside 50 percent of land and water to stave off the sixth great extinction, Earth First! called for this radical effort to save the planet.

A fast-paced narrative account of the hippie cowboys of Earth First! and their suit-and-tie Washington, D.C. counterparts, Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth! First and the Environmental Movement, became a cult classic. Now available in a 25th Anniversary edition, revised and updated with a new afterword by author Susan Zakin, this comprehensive, well-researched history of the environmental movement’s successes and failures has fresh urgency as Americans face an unprecedented assault on the country’s most iconic and beloved landscapes.

Paperback - 582 pages - 2018