" Jim Blackburn, photographs by Jim Olive.
This is a book for all who love the Texas coast and anyone interested in what it's like to be a lawyer willing to take up environmental causes in the courtroom. Fortunately, this lawyer is a great story teller, telling not only the stories of why people love the bays, but of the price people have paid for standing up and fighting to keep those same bays clean and productive. With the subject matter being essentially the Texas Gulf Coast, this book is loaded with beautiful photography. Because of the variety of the cases presented, the reader also learns the intricacies of freshwater inflows, deep port construction, disappearing oyster beds, beach resorts, industrial pollution, and more.
Hardcover, 8 1/2x10. 304 pp, 116 color photos, 32 figs. 26 maps, index, Oct. 2004
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