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A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing
University of North Texas Press
March 2006
213 pages ISBN: 1574412086 Trade Size
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Since Roy Bedichek's influential Adventures with a Texas
Naturalist , no book has attempted to explore the uniqueness
of Texas nature, or reflected the changes in the human
landscape that have accelerated since Bedichek's time. Pride
of Place updates Bedichek's discussion by acknowledging the
increased urbanization and the loss of wildspace in today's
state. It joins other recent collections of regional nature
writing while demonstrating what makes Texas uniquely
diverse. These fourteen essays are held together by the
story of Texas pride, the sense that from West Texas to the
Coastal Plains, we and the landscape are important and
worthy of pride, if not downright bravado.
This book addresses all the major regions of Texas.
Beginning with Roy Bedichek's essay "Still Water," it
includes Carol Cullar and Barbara "Barney" Nelson on the Rio
Grande region of West Texas, John Graves's evocative
"Kindred Spirits" on Central Texas, Joe Nick Patoski's
celebration of Hill Country springs, Pete Gunter on the
Piney Woods, David Taylor on North Texas, Gary Clark and
Gerald Thurmond on the Coastal Plains, Ray Gonzales and
Marian Haddad on El Paso, Stephen Harrigan and Wyman Meinzer
on West Texas, and Naomi Shihab Nye on urban San Antonio. This anthology will appeal not only to those interested in
regional history, natural history, and the environmental
issues Texans face, but also to all who say gladly, "I'm
from Texas."
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