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Spring reading from
Texas Ac&M University PressThe Nature
of Texas
A FEAST OF NATIVE BEAUTY
FROM TEXAS HIGHWAYS
MAGAZINE
EDITED BY HowARD PEACOCK
FOREWORD BY FRANK LIVELY
Wherever you live or look in
Texas, nature reveals rare and
striking sights. Every region possesses
its own peculiar treasures
of nature: trees, mountains,
mists, valleys, streams, meadows,
flowers, birds, beasts,
rocks, grasses, butterflies,
sweeping vistas of horizons, and
stunning wild orchids unfolding
in remote savannas.
Crafted by some of the finest
nature writers and photographers
in America, the roving
chapters in this volume invite
readers to get up and go, to
seek out and experience for
themselves nature's own memorable
sights and remarkable
sounds. 8 1/2x11. 152 pp. 81
color photos. $24.95
Fred Gipson at Work
GLEN E. LICH
Fred Gipson is best remembered as a
children's writer, as the author of Old
Yeller, the novel that sold three million
copies during his lifetime and was made
into a popular Disney film.
Glen Lich reveals the autobiographical
watermarks in Gipson's books that
chart the rise and fall of his creative
fortunes. He explores Gipson's varied
writings-essays, histories, biographies,
novels, and children's stories-in
chronological fashion, beginning with
his essays and student newspaper
columns at the University of Texas and
ending with his juveniles. Lich also
includes final assessments of Gipson's
works in the picaresque, pastoral,
western, and juvenile fantasy modes.
142 pp. 1 b&w photo. 1 line drawing.
$29.95Wyman P. Maim
A Visit from
Father and Other
Tales of the Mojave
DONALD E. WORCESTER
With understated narrative and vivid
detail, Don Worcester spins tales of
childhood and growing up between the
two World Wars, of the West lived as
both fact and myth, of family and
loneliness.
These are stories of the hard routine
of life on his grandparents' "homestead"
in the Southern California
desert; of scraping by during the Great
Depression; of his father who disappeared
when Worcester was a young
boy-then reappeared one day years
later for a magical half-hour visit; of
seasons spent with his mother, who was
creating an academic career; and most
of all, of the horses that were alwaysthere to keep hope alive. This
is a sprightly telling of a most
human story, a nostalgic remembrance
of an unusual rite
of passage. 112 pp. 20 b&w
photos. $15.95
Karankawa
County
SHORT STORIES FROM
A CORNER OF TEXAS
NEAL MORGAN
Karankawa County exists,
Neal Morgan tells us at the
outset of his masterful book
of short stories, in a vague
never-never-land, "clouded in
the minds of residents and
outsiders alike." But the stories
he tells of Karankawa
County and its residents are
anything but clouded.
Maud and Mahatma, Duke
Grant, Frog Mason, and other
intriguing characters come
alive before our eyes. We learn
how War Hoss Kelly got his
football scholarship and how
r ~ , Jimmy Gene lost her high
school sweetheart to the Texas State
University gridiron. We grieve over
Greenberry Turnbull who, despite what
the Karankawa County coroner said,
died of madness looking for a
Waxahachie Coke bottle.
These are stories-some hilarious,
some bizarre with darkly compelling
twists-that might be told in Karankawa
County today, if there were
such a county, at house parties of the
semi-affluent or in redneck beer joints
of those less fortunate.152 pp. $16.95At booksellers.
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