From a Limestone Ledge : : Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas /

From a Limestone Ledge : : Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas / / John Graves.

“Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas.” —New Yorker “Graves writes eloquently about a countryman’s concerns. There's not a false note in the book.” —Boston Globe “Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves’s native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits a...

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VerfasserIn:
Graves, John,
MitwirkendeR:
Wittliff, Bill,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Coping
  • Notes of an Uncertain Bluecollar Man
  • More Than Most People Probably Want to Know About Fences
  • Building Fever
  • Meat
  • Vin du Pays
  • Trash as Treasure
  • Kindred Spirits
  • Creatures
  • Nineteen Cows
  • A Few Words in Favor of Goats
  • Of Bees and Men
  • Blue and Some Other Dogs
  • Some Chickens I Have Known
  • Ponderings, People, and Other Oddments
  • Noticing
  • Weather Between East and West
  • Coronado's Stepchildren
  • Tobacco Without Smoke I: Dippers
  • Tobacco Without Smoke II: Chewers
  • One's Own Sole Ground
  • A Loser
  • A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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