On the Border
Subtitle: An Environmental History of San Antonio
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: May 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781595340146
Subjects: Land Utilization; United States - State & Local - West; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Human ecology; Water And Marine Resources Management; Social ecology; History; History - U.S; Nature; History: American; Natural Resources; Human geography; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Essays; San Antonio; Texas; Environmental Science; United States - State & Local - Southwest
First sentence: All he wanted was bait for fishing, but when the young man cracked open a mussel he had pulled up from the shallow waters of the San Antonio River he was startled to "discover a pearl imbedded in the unhappy bivalve."