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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos

River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant

that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and

sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as

would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out

an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch

of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth.

Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe

voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn

weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent

skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage

and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and

the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century

after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true

American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a

powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing

natural environment.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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John Gravess writing is invaluable. . . . The reader who misses

Graves will have missed much. --Larry McMurtry

As you read, you have the feeling that the whole colorful,

brutal tapestry of the Lone Star State is being unrolled for you

out of the biography of this one stream. The Atlantic Monthly

Graves originality and flair turn this local scene and regional

lore into an hoest and powerfully evocative picture of frontier

life anywhere. The Chicago Sunday Tribune

One of the most pleasing books Ive ever read. I love the way it

weaves together remote history, not so remote history, present

events, and landscape.Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The

Hidden Life of Dogs

From the Trade Paperback edition. -- Review

书籍介绍

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth.

Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

From the Trade Paperback edition.