Goodbye to a River

John Graves

Sierra Club-Ballantine Books

Goodbye to a River 1st (first) edition Text Only

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

DOUBLEDAY

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 Riveris 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

History

Americas

Alfred.A. Knopf

A three-week canoe trip down a two-hundred-mile stretch of the Brazos River celebrates the author's nostalgic return to scenes of boyhood expeditions. He weaves Comanche Indian and pioneer lore into observations on a changing modern landscape and its animal and human dwellers.

Goodbye to a River: A Narrative

Travel

Darla M. Beckman

United States

University Of Nebraska Press

a lavishly illustrated hardcover version.

The Last Running

The Encino Press

Many Texans are proud of their state. The people, the places, the ideals and hearts all come together in a magnitude of pride exhibited toward the Lone Star. For many reasons, some more obvious than others, Texas holds a special place in hearts of inhabitants and visitors alike. Texas State Photographer, Wyman Meinzer, is such a person, a native son, and a documentarian of what it means to be a proud Texan. I must admit that my Texas occupies that special niche in my soul known only to those who were born and reared within these recognizable borders. In this work, Inspiration Texas Style , we have chosen to ask a cross section of Texans to express their own feelings of what this state means to them. Some of these individuals are well known on the world stage while others are salt-of-the-earth beings. In a few cases, verities uttered long ago were from those not born in Texas but came later, their voices echoing a desire for inclusion beneath the title of Texans. By pairing each verbal offering to images collected here, we hope to focus on both the rich visual heritage that our state offers to the American theme and also to recognize a collection of personal prose whose authors possess a definite sense of place. This is Texas as defined from the hearts of Texans. - Wyman Meinzer

Inspiration Texas Style

Arts & Photography

Wyman Meinzer

Photography & Video

Badlands Blue Star Publishing

2nd edition arriving in three weeks! Read the up to date version of the New American Revolution! Award winning author John Graves tells the story of the process, the people and the communities involved in the hydraulic fracturing of the deep rock. 
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<li>Our shale gas and oil reserves are higher, our crude imports continue to decline while jobs and tax revenues grow and the environment's health improves: all a result of the wise use of the American hydrocarbon bounty.</li>
<li>Recent price decline for crude oil is the new oil war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. U S production continues to increase as our costs decline. Big Oil, OPEC and independent US producers are fighting to the bottom of the crude barrel. Who will win this multiple theatre war? Stay tuned!</li>
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Fracking: America's Alternative Energy Revolution

Business & Money

Economics

Safe Harbor

Fracking is the process of using high pressure salt water to break open the deep rock beneath our feet. This new applied technology is creating a generation of opportunity for America, Fracking has, Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by a startling 450 million tons since 2005, Created nearly two million new jobs, with three million more during the next decade, Reduced America's dependence upon foreign crude oil and gas by 40% since 2006, Added $100 billion in local state and federal tax revenues, Put America on the road to becoming the world's biggest oil producer by 2020 Book jacket.

Fracking: America's Alternative Energy Revolution 2nd Edition

Technology

Mr. Sparkles & His Ham

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Houston Chronicle once observed, "John Graves' provenance is about as Texas as a writer can get." In this fascinating memoir, one of the Lone Star State's literary icons reflects on the European travels that shaped him as a writer. "Graves is a master of visual detail, and his journey unfolds with the picturesque clarity of a film."-Publishers Weekly

Myself & Strangers

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