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By the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, here is the definitive, career-spanning collection of nonfiction from one of America's leading writers, Stephen Harrigan.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword by Nicholas Lemann
  • Part One: Music in the Desert
    • Morning Light
    • On the Edge
    • The Secret Life of the Beach
    • Going into the Desert
    • Isla del Padre
    • "The Tiger Is God"
    • The Bay
    • Swamp Thing
    • The Silver Kings
  • Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths
    • The Roof of Eden
    • Feeling Flush
    • The Anger of Achilles
    • Rock and Sky
    • The Little Man's Road
    • My Igloo
    • A Secret Door
  • Part Three: The Shadow of History
    • The Temple of Destiny
    • The Man Nobody Knows
    • Comanche Midnight
    • Wolf House
    • The Last Days of David Crockett
    • Taking Care of Lonesome Dove
    • His Fostering Hand
    • The Eye of the Mammoth
    • A Troublous Life
  • Part Four: Where Is My Home?
    • What Texas Means to Me
    • The Soul of Treaty Oak
    • Wish I Were There
    • The Eyesore
    • The Golden Age of Austin
    • Texanic!
    • Fade In, Fade Out
    • Where Is My Home?
    • Off Course
  • Acknowledgments

The Eye of the Mammoth

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2019
      ISBN13: 9781477320099, 978-1477320099
      ISBN10: 1477320091

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      By the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, here is the definitive, career-spanning collection of nonfiction from one of America's leading writers, Stephen Harrigan.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword by Nicholas Lemann
      • Part One: Music in the Desert
        • Morning Light
        • On the Edge
        • The Secret Life of the Beach
        • Going into the Desert
        • Isla del Padre
        • "The Tiger Is God"
        • The Bay
        • Swamp Thing
        • The Silver Kings
      • Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths
        • The Roof of Eden
        • Feeling Flush
        • The Anger of Achilles
        • Rock and Sky
        • The Little Man's Road
        • My Igloo
        • A Secret Door
      • Part Three: The Shadow of History
        • The Temple of Destiny
        • The Man Nobody Knows
        • Comanche Midnight
        • Wolf House
        • The Last Days of David Crockett
        • Taking Care of Lonesome Dove
        • His Fostering Hand
        • The Eye of the Mammoth
        • A Troublous Life
      • Part Four: Where Is My Home?
        • What Texas Means to Me
        • The Soul of Treaty Oak
        • Wish I Were There
        • The Eyesore
        • The Golden Age of Austin
        • Texanic!
        • Fade In, Fade Out
        • Where Is My Home?
        • Off Course
      • Acknowledgments

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