Texas Rivers
In a state as large as Texas, the rivers traverse and connect  diverse landscapes, territories, and cultures. This lovely book,  with text by Texas literary icon Graves (Goodbye to a River) and  illustrations by state photographer Meinzer, follows six  selected rivers along their courses through different regions of  the state. The rivers that are the subjects of the photographic  essays are the Canadian ("A Slash Through the High Plains"), the  Neches ("A Piece of the South"), west Texas's Pecos ("Tough  Going"), the Clear Fork of the Bravos in the central plains  ("Cow Country"), and, from the central hill country, the Llano  ("From Limestone to Granite") and the Sabinal ("An Enclosed  World"). Some rivers meander through parched, cactus-strewn  deserts while others flow beneath the canopies of cypress and  pine forests. Some rivers are relatively unchanged since the  times of the ancient civilizations that lived by them, while  others have suffered from overuse by the people living in the  cities along their banks. Each river in this collection, though,  represents in one way or another something that is  quintessentially Texan. For Texas libraries and regional  collections.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.