Circling back : chronicle of a Texas river valley / / by Joe C. Truett ; foreword by Wayne Franklin

• Autore: Truett Joe C (Joe Clyde), <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, IA, : University of Iowa Press, 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.4/18063/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Ecologists - United States; Natural history - Texas - Angelina River Valley
• Soggetto geografico: Angelina River Valley (Tex.) Biography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212).
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. The Angelina Country; 2. Clovis; 3. Corn; 4. Hole-in-the-Rock; 5. Trade Winds; 6. A Beast in Hand; 7. Off the End of a Gun; 8. Farewell, Angelina; 9. Beef Trail; 10. Frontier's End; 11. John Henry and the Iron Horse; 12. Fannie; 13. Mr. Ford's Car; 14. Hard Times and Little Animals; 15. Poppin' Johnny; 16. Wires; 17. Power Brokers; 18. The End of the River; 19. Corporate State; 20. Field to Field; 21. The Price of Subsidy; 22. Hope; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: "There was so much space." These words epitomize ecologist Joe Truett's boyhood memories of the Angelina River valley in East Texas. Years and miles later, back home for the funeral of his grandfather, Truett began a long meditation on the world Corbett Graham had known and he himself had glimpsed, a now-vanished world where wild hogs and countless other animals rustled through the leaves, cows ate pinewoods grass instead of corn, oaks and hickories and longleaf pines were untouched by the corporate ax, and the river flowed freely. Truett's meditation resulted in this clear-sighted po
• Titolo autorizzato: Circling back
• ISBN: 1-58729-240-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827051703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American land and life series.