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Synopsis
In this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature.
Synopsis
In this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature. In vivid and convincing prose, he evokes the landscape of his home territory, Texas, and his own reactions, sometimes droll, sometimes haunted, to the extraordinary power of place that Texas projects.
Table of Contents
Morning light -- On the edge -- The secret life of the beach -- Life behind bars -- The perfect river -- going into the desert -- Isla del Padre -- What Texas means to me.