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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792178303321

Autore

McConal Jon <1937->

Titolo

A walk across Texas [[electronic resource] /] / Jon McConal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fort Worth, Tex., : TCU Press, c2008

ISBN

0-87565-470-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Disciplina

917.6404/64

Soggetti

Hiking - Texas - West

Texas, West Description and travel

Texas, West Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter One""; ""Chapter Two""; ""Chapter Three""; ""Chapter Four""; ""Chapter Five""; ""Chapter Six""; ""Chapter Seven""; ""Chapter Eight""; ""Chapter Nine""; ""Chapter Ten""; ""Chapter Eleven""; ""Chapter Twelve""; ""Chapter Thirteen""; ""Chapter Fourteen""; ""Chapter Fifteen""; ""Chapter Sixteen""; ""Chapter Seventeen""; ""Chapter Eighteen""; ""Chapter Nineteen""; ""Chapter Twenty""; ""Chapter Twenty-One""; ""Chapter Twenty-Two""; ""Chapter Twenty-Three""; ""Chapter Twenty-Four""; ""Chapter Twenty-Five""; ""Chapter Twenty-Six""

""Chapter Twenty-Seven""""Chapter Twenty-Eight""; ""Chapter Twenty-Nine""; ""Chapter Thirty""; ""Chapter Thirty-One""; ""Epilogue""; ""Interviews""; ""Works Consulted""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Part travelogue, part natural history, and part documentary, A Walk across Texas is the record of three friends' journey from the Panhandle to Granbury-a 450-mile walk across West Texas. Jon McConal and his two friends, Eddie Lane and Norm Snyder, hiked for twenty-eight days through the less traveled byways of the Texas outlands, and in the process they encountered a world that is now as foreign to most Americans as the Taj Mahal.Researching places they wanted to see in advance, the trio selected a route that crossed as many creeks and rivers as possible and offered amenable campsites. Not you