Goodbye to a River: A Narrative Paperback - 2002
by John Graves
In this beloved modern classic, the author renders an account of three weeks spent on the Brazos River during the autumn of 1957. Part history, part memoir, and part travelogue, "Goodbye to a River" is a moving tribute to a vanishing world and its people. Illustrations.
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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.
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- Title Goodbye to a River: A Narrative
- Author John Graves
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-07-09
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780375727788 / 0375727787
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Brazos River (Tex.) - Description and travel, Brazos River Valley (Tex.) - Description and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002725645
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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