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The Blanco River / Wes Ferguson ; photography by Jacob Croft Botter ; foreword by Andrew Sansom.
Author
Ferguson, Wes
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]
Description
170 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
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Notes
ReCAP - Remote Storage
F392.B55 F47 2017
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Subject(s)
Blanco River (Tex.)
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Description and travel
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Blanco River (Tex.)
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History
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Ferguson, Wes
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Travel
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Texas
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Blanco River
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Illustrator
Botter, Jacob Croft, 1976-
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Editor
Sansom, Andrew
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Writer of foreword
Sansom, Andrew
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Travel writing
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Getty AAT genre
travelers’ writings
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travelog (performed works genre)
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Series
River books (Series)
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Summary note
For eighty-seven miles, the swift and shallow Blanco River winds through the Texas Hill Country. Its water is clear and green, darkened by frequent pools. But Spanish explorers named it the White River for the pale limestone they encountered along its banks and dramatic bluffs. Over the last two years, Wes Ferguson and Jacob Botter have paddled, walked, and waded the Blanco. They have explored its history, people, wildlife, and the natural beauty that surprises everyone who experiences this river. Described as "the defining element in some of the Hill Country's most beautiful scenery," the Blanco flows both above and below ground, part of a network of rivers and aquifers that sustains the region's wildlife and millions of humans alike. However, overpumping and prolonged drought have combined to weaken the Blanco's flow and sustenance, and in 2000 -- for the first time in recorded history -- the river's most significant feeder spring, Jacob's Well, briefly ceased to flow. It stopped again in 2008. Then, in the spring of 2015, a devastating flood killed twelve people and toppled the huge cypress trees along its banks, altering not just the look of the river, but the communities that had come to depend on its serene presence. River travelers Ferguson and Botter tell the remarkable story of this changeable river, confronting challenges and dangers as well as rare opportunities to see parts of the river few have seen. The authors also photographed and recorded the human response to the destruction of a beloved natural resource that has become yet another episode in the story of water in Texas.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Foreword / by Andrew Sansom
The White River
The suburbs
The battles of the Blanco
The headwaters
The upper Blanco
The town, not the river
River intruders
The river rises
Into Wimberley
Li'l ark
Halifax Ranch
An ancient sea
The end of the river
Where buffalo roamed
The deluge begins
The Wimberley flood
Recovery.
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ISBN
9781623495107 ((flexbound (with flaps) ; : alk. paper))
1623495105
9781623495114 ((e-book))
1623495113
SuDoc no.
Z TA475.8 F381BL
LCCN
2016039308
OCLC
959922579
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