Author: B. E. Dahl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barrier islands
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Shipwrecked on Padre Island
Author: Isabel R. Marvin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781885777171
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the spring of 1554, a deadly storm ran three Spanish ships aground on Padre Island off the southern Texas coast. After the shipwreck, 13-year-old Catalina and her father spend frightening days on the island with other survivors. Fast forward to the present. A teenage visitor to Padre Island finds a bracelet lost by Catalina, thus forging a link between the two girls separated in time by 400 years.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781885777171
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the spring of 1554, a deadly storm ran three Spanish ships aground on Padre Island off the southern Texas coast. After the shipwreck, 13-year-old Catalina and her father spend frightening days on the island with other survivors. Fast forward to the present. A teenage visitor to Padre Island finds a bracelet lost by Catalina, thus forging a link between the two girls separated in time by 400 years.
Somewhere Between Texas and Mexico
Author: Jeff Natterer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781006362354
Category : Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Two years of documenting South Padre Island, Port Isabel, Boca Chica Laguna Madre and surroundings through photography. A photographic chronicle of the people, landscape, seascape and wildlife of one of the most beautiful and unique areas of North America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781006362354
Category : Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Two years of documenting South Padre Island, Port Isabel, Boca Chica Laguna Madre and surroundings through photography. A photographic chronicle of the people, landscape, seascape and wildlife of one of the most beautiful and unique areas of North America.
Where We Come From
Author: Oscar Cásares
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525655441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations--on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents--and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives--and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death. For Nina, Brownsville is where she grew up, where she lost her first and only love, and where she stayed as her relatives moved away and her neighborhood deteriorated. It's the place where she has buried all her secrets--and now she has another: she's providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another. Separated from the violent human traffickers who brought him across the border and pursued by the authorities, Daniel must stay completely hidden. But Orly's arrival threatens to put them all at risk of exposure. Tackling the crisis of U.S. immigration policy from a deeply human angle, Where We Come From explores through an intimate lens the ways that family history shapes us, how secrets can burden us, and how finding compassion and understanding for others can ultimately set us free.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525655441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations--on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents--and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives--and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death. For Nina, Brownsville is where she grew up, where she lost her first and only love, and where she stayed as her relatives moved away and her neighborhood deteriorated. It's the place where she has buried all her secrets--and now she has another: she's providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another. Separated from the violent human traffickers who brought him across the border and pursued by the authorities, Daniel must stay completely hidden. But Orly's arrival threatens to put them all at risk of exposure. Tackling the crisis of U.S. immigration policy from a deeply human angle, Where We Come From explores through an intimate lens the ways that family history shapes us, how secrets can burden us, and how finding compassion and understanding for others can ultimately set us free.
Shrimp Country
Author: Anna Marlis Burgard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813062945
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Embark on a fresh and delicious culinary tour of coastal America! Shrimp Country invites readers to discover the southern shorelines from Texas to the Carolinas, savoring the region's sea air, salty characters, and succulent shrimp.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813062945
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Embark on a fresh and delicious culinary tour of coastal America! Shrimp Country invites readers to discover the southern shorelines from Texas to the Carolinas, savoring the region's sea air, salty characters, and succulent shrimp.
Beach and Nearshore Sedimentation
Author: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Islands at the Edge of Time
Author: Gunnar Hansen
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781559632515
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781559632515
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.
Surf Texas
Author: Kenny Braun
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292757707
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The urge to ride a wave, the search for the next perfect swell, is an enduring preoccupation that draws people to coastlines around the world. In recent decades, surfing has grown into a multimillion-dollar industry with over three million surfers in the United States alone and an international competitive circuit that draws top surfers to legendary beaches in Hawaii, California, and Australia. But away from the crowds and the hype, dedicated surfers catch waves in places like the Texas Gulf Coast for the pure pleasure of being in harmony with life, their sport, and the ocean. Kenny Braun knows that primal pleasure, as both a longtime Texas surfer and a fine art photographer who has devoted years to capturing the surf culture on Texas beaches. In Surf Texas, he presents an eloquent photo essay that portrays the enduring fascination of surfing, as well as the singular and sometimes unexpected beauty of the coast. Texas is one of the top six surfing states in America, and Braun uses evocative black-and-white photography to reveal the essence of the surfers' world from Galveston to South Padre. His images catch the drama of shooting the waves, those moments of skill and daring as riders rip across the breaking face, as well as the downtime of bobbing on swells like seabirds and hanging out on the beach with friends. Braun also photographs the place—beaches and dunes, skies and storms, surf shops, motels, and parking lots—with a native's knowing eye for defining details. Elegant and timeless, this vision of the Texas Coast is redolent of sea breezes and salt air and the memories and dreams they evoke. Surfer or not, everyone who feels the primeval attraction of wind and waves will enjoy Surf Texas.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292757707
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The urge to ride a wave, the search for the next perfect swell, is an enduring preoccupation that draws people to coastlines around the world. In recent decades, surfing has grown into a multimillion-dollar industry with over three million surfers in the United States alone and an international competitive circuit that draws top surfers to legendary beaches in Hawaii, California, and Australia. But away from the crowds and the hype, dedicated surfers catch waves in places like the Texas Gulf Coast for the pure pleasure of being in harmony with life, their sport, and the ocean. Kenny Braun knows that primal pleasure, as both a longtime Texas surfer and a fine art photographer who has devoted years to capturing the surf culture on Texas beaches. In Surf Texas, he presents an eloquent photo essay that portrays the enduring fascination of surfing, as well as the singular and sometimes unexpected beauty of the coast. Texas is one of the top six surfing states in America, and Braun uses evocative black-and-white photography to reveal the essence of the surfers' world from Galveston to South Padre. His images catch the drama of shooting the waves, those moments of skill and daring as riders rip across the breaking face, as well as the downtime of bobbing on swells like seabirds and hanging out on the beach with friends. Braun also photographs the place—beaches and dunes, skies and storms, surf shops, motels, and parking lots—with a native's knowing eye for defining details. Elegant and timeless, this vision of the Texas Coast is redolent of sea breezes and salt air and the memories and dreams they evoke. Surfer or not, everyone who feels the primeval attraction of wind and waves will enjoy Surf Texas.
Shrimp Tales 2
Author: Rudy H Garcia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a collection of stories by and about women and their roles in the shrimping industry of South Texas.Women performen many roles in the industry; including, net mending and making, business bookkeeping, shrimp processing, advocacy for the industry, and caring for the family.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a collection of stories by and about women and their roles in the shrimping industry of South Texas.Women performen many roles in the industry; including, net mending and making, business bookkeeping, shrimp processing, advocacy for the industry, and caring for the family.
Construction and Stabilization of Coastal Foredunes with Vegetation, Padre Island, Texas
Author: B. E. Dahl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barrier islands
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barrier islands
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Padre Island National Park
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Considers S. 4, to establish the Padre Island National Park, Tex. Hearing was held in Corpus Christi, Tex.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Considers S. 4, to establish the Padre Island National Park, Tex. Hearing was held in Corpus Christi, Tex.