A Natural State
Essays on Texas

Stephen Harrigan (Author)

9780292730878

Paperback / softback, published 1 May 1994

199 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.227 kg

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.

Preface
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