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Goodbye to a River

John Graves
Goodbye to a River Book PDF

Author : John Graves
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307773357

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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

Texas Rivers

John Graves
Texas Rivers Book PDF

Author : John Graves
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780292701984

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Explores the history, geography, and culture of the rivers of Texas, accompanied by full-color photographs depicting the rivers.

John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River

John Graves,David S. Hamrick,Laura W. Bush
John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River Book PDF

Author : John Graves,David S. Hamrick,Laura W. Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-23
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1589070011

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John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River by John Graves,David S. Hamrick,Laura W. Bush Pdf

A keepsake cloth limited edition published on the occasion of the Texas Book Festival 2000 as a tribute to Mr. Graves. This book includes correspondence with Alfred Knopf, Sr., Carl Hertzog, renowned book designer, and J. Frank Dobie covering the period between 1957-1960. Included is a definitive, annotated bibliography prepared by Mr. Graves and a foreword by First Lady of Texas Laura W. Bush.

Exploring the Brazos River

Jim Kimmel
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Author : Jim Kimmel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603444804

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"Come with us to learn about a great Texas river ... We will explore ... camp on its banks ... and look for places of excitement, beauty and learning - some of them surprising." From its ancient headwaters on the semiarid plains of eastern New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River carves a huge and paradoxical crescent through Texas geography and history.

River of Contrasts

Margie Crisp
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Author : Margie Crisp
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781603447478

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River of Contrasts by Margie Crisp Pdf

Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas’ Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles southeast across the state to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay. Echoing the truth of Heraclitus’s ancient dictum, the river’s character changes dramatically from its dusty headwaters on the High Plains to its meandering presence on the coastal prairie. The Colorado is the longest river with both its source and its mouth in Texas, and its water, from beginning to end, provides for the state’s agricultural, municipal, and recreational needs. As Crisp notes, the Colorado River is perhaps most frequently associated with its middle reaches in the Hill Country, where it has been dammed to create the six reservoirs known as the Highland Lakes. Following Crisp as she explores the river, sometimes with her fisherman husband, readers meet the river’s denizens—animal, plant, and human—and learn something about the natural history, the politics, and those who influence the fate of the river and the water it carries. Those who live intimately with the natural landscape inevitably formulate emotional responses to their surroundings, and the people living on or near the Colorado River are no exception. Crisp’s own loving tribute to the river and its inhabitants is enhanced by the exquisite art she has created for this book. Her photographs and maps round out the useful and beautiful accompaniments to this thoughtful portrait of one of Texas’ most beloved rivers. Former first lady Laura Bush unveils this year's Texas Book Festival poster designed by artist Margie Crisp, author of River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado. The poster features cliff swallows flying over the Colorado River. Photo by Grant Miller To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

Peace Like a River

Leif Enger
Peace Like a River Book PDF

Author : Leif Enger
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 087113795X

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Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Book PDF

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476764528

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Featuring a previously published author introduction, a personal foreword by his son and a new introduction by his grandson, a definitive edition of the lauded World War I classic collects all 39 of the Nobel Prize-winning author's alternate endings to offer new insights into his creative process. Reprint.

Across the River and Into the Trees

Ernest Hemingway
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Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190738

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Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Across the River and Into the Trees" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Too Late to Say Goodbye

Ann Rule
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Author : Ann Rule
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781847396068

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Written within a cloistered environment to protect sources that have yet to be identified, TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE is a chilling portrait of two beautiful, successful women whose murders were made to look like suicides. Jenn Corbin appeared to have it all: two little boys, a posh home in the suburbs of Atlanta, and a husband - Dr Bart Corbin, a successful dentist - who was handsome and brilliant. Then, in December 2004, Jenn was found dead with a bullet in her head, apparently by suicide. Only later would detectives learn that another woman in Dr Corbin's past had been found years earlier with nearly the exact same wound to the head, also ruled a suicide. In TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE, Ann Rule - working in cooperation with victims' families, police investigators, and sources from Georgia to Australia - unravels the now-sensational deaths. What emerges is an incredible tale of jealous rage; of stunning evidence that runs from the steamy to the macabre; and of a fateful, mind-boggling coincidence that appears to have motivated the killings. The definitive unravelling of one of the strangest murder investigations of our time, this is the greatest achievement of a truly great writing career.

The River Home

Franklin Burroughs
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Author : Franklin Burroughs
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820319988

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Burroughs chronicles a canoe voyage through the Carolinas, visiting his ancestral homeland and the people who inhabit the banks of the Waccamaw River.

Running the River

Wes Ferguson
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Author : Wes Ferguson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781623491277

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Running the River by Wes Ferguson Pdf

Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of hunters and loggers, more than a few water moccasins, swarms of mosquitoes, and the occasional black bear lumbering through swamp oak and cypress knees. But when Ferguson set out to do a series of newspaper stories on the upper portion of the river, he and photographer Jacob Croft Botter were entranced by the river’s subtle beauty and the solitude they found there. They came to admire the self-described “river rats” who hunted, fished, and swapped stories along the muddy water—plain folk who love the Sabine as much as Hill Country vacationers love the clear waters of the Guadalupe. Determined to travel the rest of the river, Ferguson and Botter loaded their gear and launched into the stretch of river that charts the line between the states and ends at the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

Gratitude and Trust

Paul Williams,Tracey Jackson
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Author : Paul Williams,Tracey Jackson
Publisher : Blue Rider Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780399167195

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"A self-help book detailing how non-addicts can use the classic 12-step recovery process to enrich their lives"--

It Started with Goodbye

Christina June
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Author : Christina June
Publisher : Blink
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780310758631

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After being falsely accused of a crime, Tatum is confined to her house under the watchful eye of her step-mother. But when a twist of fate comes in the form of a mysterious client to her graphic design business, maybe there’s a bit of fairytale luck after all. Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. Trapped under her stepmother-imposed house arrest and her BFF ghosting her, Tatum pours herself into the assigned community service. With a helpful push from her fellow community service member, Abby, Tatum fills her time at homebuilding her covert graphic design business, right under her stepmother’s nose. When a cute cello-playing client sweeps Tatum off her feet, she’s left breathless and eager to get out of these four walls. But Tatum discovers she's not the only one in the house keeping secrets as she takes the chance to make amends with her family and friends. Encouraged by her feisty step-abuela/fairy-godmother, and filled with a new perception of life, Tatum is ready to start fresh and maybe even get her happy ending along the way. A contemporary twist on the Cinderella tale, It Started With Goodbye features: secret admirer and hidden identity trope a strong, spunky female lead for fans of Elise Bryant, Meg Cabot, and Sarah Dessen

Paddling the Guadalupe

Wayne H. McAlister
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Author : Wayne H. McAlister
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1603440216

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Paddling the Guadalupe by Wayne H. McAlister Pdf

For more than forty years, Wayne H. McAlister has canoed the Guadalupe River, sometimes called the “top recreational river in Texas.” In Paddling the Guadalupe, he guides readers down this 400-mile river whose waters spring from the limestone of the Hill Country in Kerr County, meander across the broad Coastal Plain, and finally empty into the Gulf of Mexico at San Antonio Bay. With the expertise of a life and career immersed in nature, he introduces readers to the places, people, plants, and animals—large and small, aquatic and terrestrial—that depend on the Guadalupe for either their livelihoods or their existence. With affection and humor (and sometimes aggravation), he wryly comments on the development and human activity along the river’s course, from the headwaters west of Kerrville to its mouth near Tivoli, just east of Refugio. For the traveler, either on the river or along its course, McAlister’s knowledge of the grists, sawmills, dams, bridges, swimming holes, and reservoirs bring the history of familiar towns—Comfort, Canyon Lake, New Braunfels, Seguin, Gonzales, Cuero, and Victoria among them—to life. His love of the natural world, which shares the river’s bounty, will inspire and enhance anyone’s experience of the Guadalupe, from the serious canoer to the family vacationer. Photographs taken over many years provide an intimate perspective, and sixteen maps help orient those interested in getting to know the river on a more personal basis. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

My Dogs and Guns

John Graves
My Dogs and Guns Book PDF

Author : John Graves
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781626369320

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My Dogs and Guns by John Graves Pdf

"Blue and Some Other Dogs" is a brilliant memoir about Graves' Basque-Australian sheep dog. "Guns of a Lifetime" tells the stories related to the guns this octogenarian Texan has owned, beginning with a "rusted and cylinderless" revolver. "So here are the stories," Graves writes. "They are not all ‘nice’ tales in contemporary terms. Political correctness, as presently defined, may be perpetrated here and there, though I hope no parts will seem like the maunderings of a Deep South redneck. But if they do, the hell with it. I am too old to fret about such matters." It’s delightful writing from a treasure of a writer.