| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : illustrations (some color), map |
| Series |
Gulf Coast studies ; no. 8 |
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TAM travel guides |
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Gulf Coast studies ; no. 8
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TAM travel guides.
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| Contents |
From Bayou to Bayou City -- A Hardworking Bay -- Recreational Riches -- Hurricanes and Floods -- Bay Politics -- The Container Port Juggernaut -- Destinations -- Events -- Hopes and Fears |
| Summary |
"Galveston Bay is the recreational center of the Texas coast - a fishing, boating, and birdwatching playground for the almost four million people who live on or near it. Sally E. Antrobus has produced a book for residents and visitors alike that tunes them in to what is happening in, on, and to the bay - the book she herself wished for when she first came to live nearby." "Beginning with a short, incisive history of the peopling of the area, Antrobus describes how the bay works ecologically and how it is put to work, for recreation and for commerce; how nature both contributes to and controls the human enterprise there; and how power and politics can destroy all the bay has to offer." --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Natural history -- Texas -- Galveston Bay.
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Galveston Bay (Tex.)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005004842 |
| ISBN |
1603446117 (electronic bk.) |
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9781603446112 (electronic bk.) |
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