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Goodbye to a River, Graves, John
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 0394426908
- EAN
- 9780394426907
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- Goodbye to a River
- Artist
- Graves, John
- Brand
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- Colour
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- Book Title
- Goodbye to a River : a Narrative
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1960
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / General, United States / South / West South Central (Ar, La, Ok, Tx), Canoeing, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 17.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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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. "From the Trade Paperback edition.""
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394426908
ISBN-13
9780394426907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
930598
Product Key Features
Book Title
Goodbye to a River : a Narrative
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, United States / South / West South Central (Ar, La, Ok, Tx), Canoeing, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
Publication Year
1960
Genre
Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
17.4 Oz
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"John Graves's writing is invaluable. . . . The reader who misses Graves will have missed much." --Larry McMurtry "As you read, you have the feeling that the whole colorful, brutal tapestry of the Lone Star State is being unrolled for you out of the biography of this one stream." -The Atlantic Monthly "Graves' originality and flair turn this local scene and regional lore into an hoest and powerfully evocative picture of frontier life anywhere." -The Chicago Sunday Tribune "One of the most pleasing books I've ever read. I love the way it weaves together remote history, not so remote history, present events, and landscape."-Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author ofThe Hidden Life of Dogs From the Trade Paperback edition., "John Graves's writing is invaluable. . . . The reader who misses Graves will have missed much." --Larry McMurtry "As you read, you have the feeling that the whole colorful, brutal tapestry of the Lone Star State is being unrolled for you out of the biography of this one stream." -The Atlantic Monthly "Graves' originality and flair turn this local scene and regional lore into an hoest and powerfully evocative picture of frontier life anywhere." -The Chicago Sunday Tribune "One of the most pleasing books I've ever read. I love the way it weaves together remote history, not so remote history, present events, and landscape."-Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs, "John Graves's writing is invaluable. . . . The reader who misses Graves will have missed much." --Larry McMurtry "As you read, you have the feeling that the whole colorful, brutal tapestry of the Lone Star State is being unrolled for you out of the biography of this one stream." -The Atlantic Monthly "Graves' originality and flair turn this local scene and regional lore into an hoest and powerfully evocative picture of frontier life anywhere." -The Chicago Sunday Tribune "One of the most pleasing books I've ever read. I love the way it weaves together remote history, not so remote history, present events, and landscape."-Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author ofThe Hidden Life of Dogs, "John Graves's writing is invaluable. . . . The reader who misses Graves will have missed much." --Larry McMurtry "As you read, you have the feeling that the whole colorful, brutal tapestry of the Lone Star State is being unrolled for you out of the biography of this one stream." The Atlantic Monthly "Graves' originality and flair turn this local scene and regional lore into an hoest and powerfully evocative picture of frontier life anywhere." The Chicago Sunday Tribune "One of the most pleasing books I've ever read. I love the way it weaves together remote history, not so remote history, present events, and landscape."Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Dewey Decimal
917.641
Dewey Edition
21
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