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By Arturo Longoria

ISBN-10: 1623495008

ISBN-13: 9781623495008

More than million acres of sand, born and blown from an historical sea starting approximately 10000 years in the past, stretch throughout 8 counties in deep South Texas. often called the Coastal Sand simple, the Texas Coastal Sand Sheet, or simply the Sand Sheet, it's a quarter of few humans, little rainfall, and no water. one of the dunes and dry, brown apartments, basically the hardiest shrubs and grasses supply habitat for the coyotes, quail, and rattlesnakes that dwell here.

Arturo Longoria, whose cabin sits amid the sand scrub and wilderness motts of granjeno, brasil, and mesquite, understands this land intimately. A scholar of bushcraft and traditional background, Longoria came upon safe haven during this distant and opposed nation as he recovered from an extraordinary disorder. He weaves a narrative of attractiveness and survival in a land the place the vastness of Texas' storied ranches and wealthy oil fields serves because the backdrop for a gentle migration of lengthy distance “travelers,” who pass over the border and into el desierto at nice peril.

This book is a few harsh and unsafe panorama that has still given sustenance and solace to a author for whom the Sand Sheet grew to become either his domestic and his inspiration.

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