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Graves, John, 1920-2013.
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Graves, John, 1920-2013.
Canoes and canoeing -- Texas -- Brazos River.
Brazos River Valley (Tex.) -- History.
Brazos River (Tex.) -- Description and travel.
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Graves, John, 1920-2013.
Graves, John, 1920-2013.
Canoes and canoeing -- Texas -- Brazos River.
Brazos River Valley (Tex.) -- History.
Brazos River (Tex.) -- Description and travel.
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Goodbye to a river : a narrative / by
John
Graves
; illustrations by Russell Waterhouse.
by
Graves
,
John
,
1920-2013
.
Vintage Departures, 2002
Call #:
917.640463 G776g
Subjects
Graves
,
John
,
1920-2013
.
Canoes and canoeing -- Texas -- Brazos River.
Brazos River Valley (Tex.) -- History.
Brazos River (Tex.) -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
0375727787
9780375727788
0394426908
9780394426907
Edition:
1st Vintage Departures ed.
Description:
306 p. ill., map 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-306).
Summary:
"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."--Jacket.
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