Adios to the Brushlands |
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| Author:
| Longoria, Arturo |
| Series title: | Wardlaw Bks. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-89096-769-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Publisher: | Texas A&M University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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At once a celebration of a region’s nature and a call to preserve the little bit of it still left today,
Adios to the Brushlands is to South Texas what Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was to the nation’s wetlands or John Graves’s Goodbye to a River was to the Brazos River. A unique descriptive documentary of a disappearing natural treasure, it is a slice of the new natural history that weds the details of the physical world with their...
More DescriptionAt once a celebration of a region’s nature and a call to preserve the little bit of it still left today, Adios to the Brushlands is to South Texas what Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was to the nation’s wetlands or John Graves’s Goodbye to a River was to the Brazos River. A unique descriptive documentary of a disappearing natural treasure, it is a slice of the new natural history that weds the details of the physical world with their significance to the human heart.