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Adios to the brushlands

Title
Adios to the brushlands / Arturo Longoria.
Author
Longoria, Arturo, 1948-
Publication
College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©1997.

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Description
118 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
  • In an area of South Texas extending across the Rio Grande into Mexico, the land was once lush and mysterious, harboring trees, shrubs, and grasses that were home to an abundance of wildlife. In Adios to the Brushlands native son Arturo Longoria remembers this chaparral land of his childhood.
  • 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. Rife with the natural history of an endangered ecology and capturing as well the binational culture of the region, Adios to the Brushlands draws readers into a land as raw, beautiful, and complex as life itself. 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.
Series Statement
A Wardlaw book
Uniform Title
Wardlaw book
Subject
  • Longoria, Arturo, 1948-
  • Shrubland ecology > Texas, South
  • Nature conservation > Texas, South
  • Nature conservation
  • Shrubland ecology
  • South Texas
Note
  • "A Wardlaw book".
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-118).
ISBN
  • 0890967695
  • 9780890967690
  • 9781623494865
  • 1623494869
LCCN
97014541
OCLC
  • ocm36817117
  • 36817117
  • SCSB-359015
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library