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Arturo Longoria - Sand Sheet, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Sand Sheet

Av Arturo Longoria

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More than two million acres of sand, born and blown from an ancient sea beginning about ten thousand years ago, stretch across eight counties in deep South Texas. Known as the Coastal Sand Plain, the Texas Coastal Sand Sheet, or just the Sand Sheet, it is a region of few people, little rainfall, and no water. Among the dunes and dry, brown flats, only the hardiest shrubs and grasses provide habitat for the coyotes, quail, and rattlesnakes that live here.Arturo Longoria, whose cabin sits amid the sand scrub and desert motts of granjeno, brasil, and mesquite, knows this land intimately. A student of bushcraft and natural history, Longoria found refuge in this remote and hostile country as he recovered from a rare illness. He weaves a story of beauty and survival in a land where the vastness of Texas' storied ranches and rich oil fields serves as the backdrop for a steady migration of long distance “travelers,” who cross over the border and into el desierto at great peril.This book is about a harsh and dangerous landscape that has nonetheless given sustenance and solace to a writer for whom the Sand Sheet became both his home and his inspiration.
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Arturo Longoria is a writer and former journalist and teacher. He is the author of two award-winning books of non-fiction, Adios to the Brushlands and Keepers of the Wilderness, also published by Texas A&M University Press.

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For those of us who treasure the natives and nature of Deep South Texas, it is a blessing to have Arturo Longoria as our own Aldo Leopold meets James Michener. The Sand Sheet provides personal, and factual, insights into the nature and natural history just north of the Rio Grande."" — Colleen Hook, Director of Quinta Mazatlan-McAllen,Texas""His book is a warning that ""Destroy the plants and you ultimately destroy yourself.""  But he offers hope that if a visitor can listen and wait for nature, it reveals its truth. The book is as prosaic in its rendering of the kalaidoscope of nature as it is wise in his quest for truth.  But his special gift is the journey that he takes the reader into an experience of beauty that cannot be imagined. His message is that unless a person accepts this nature on its own terms, he will never recognize it when nature reveals itself in the quiet retreat of a gray fox into the dusk. He is anxious to warn us about losing our earth, and he wants finally to know truth. The author has found himself deep in the Sand Sheet, and he is dying to share it with us."" - Andres Tijerina, author of Tejano Empire

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