![]() ![]() Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream's regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Illustrations.īook Synopsis In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. ![]() ![]() Part history, part memoir, and part travelogue, "Goodbye to a River" is a moving tribute to a vanishing world and its people. About the Book In this beloved modern classic, the author renders an account of three weeks spent on the Brazos River during the autumn of 1957. ![]()
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