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1 online resource |
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The seventh generation: survival, sustainability, sustenance in a new nature |
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Seventh generation (Series)
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Summary |
More than two million acres of sand, born and blown from an ancient sea beginning about ten thousand years ago, stretch across eight counties in deep South Texas. Known as the Coastal Sand Plain, the Texas Coastal Sand Sheet, or just the Sand Sheet, it is a region of few people, little rainfall, and no water. Among the dunes and dry, brown flats, only the hardiest shrubs and grasses provide habitat for the coyotes, quail, and rattlesnakes that live here. Arturo Longoria, whose cabin sits amid the sand scrub and desert motts of granjeno, brasil, and mesquite, knows this land intimately. A stude |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
Subject |
Longoria, Arturo, 1948- -- Homes and haunts -- Texas, South
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Longoria, Arturo, 1948- |
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Natural history -- Texas, South
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Xeric ecology -- Texas, South
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Shrubland ecology -- Texas, South
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Coastal plains -- Texas, South
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Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs.
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Nature / Essays.
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Coastal plains
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Homes
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Natural history
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Shrubland ecology
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Social conditions
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Xeric ecology
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South Texas Sand Sheet (Tex.)
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Texas, South -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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South Texas
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Texas -- South Texas Sand Sheet
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2016037163 |
ISBN |
1623495016 |
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1623495008 |
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9781623495008 |
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9781623495015 |
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