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Overview"""Jay B. Sauceda is creating a new kind of literature for the state, a visual literature that is as significant and powerful as John Graves's Goodbye to a River, Robert Caro's The Path to Power, Edna Ferber's Giant, or T. R. Fehrenbach's Lone Star. His compositions accomplish what all great work does-offering a new way of seeing things so familiar that we have stopped seeing them."" -Rick Bass in Texas Monthly On the ground, Texas is a vast patchwork of natural and human landscapes-wide open spaces contrasting with sprawling cities; the watery worlds of rivers, lakes, and coastlines giving way to the arid vistas of plains and deserts. From the air, though, Texas takes on a wholeness that unites the landscapes that people manufacture with the land that nature still sculpts. This is the Texas that Jay B. Sauceda portrays in A Mile above Texas, a book of stunning aerial photographs that document the entire perimeter of the state. Sauceda flew 3,822 miles, over five days in 2015, in a single-engine Cessna. He shot more than 44,000 photos from the plane, via handheld cameras and GoPros attached to the wings. This book presents the very best of those photographs in sections that cover each leg of the trip: Victoria to Marshall, Marshall to Dalhart, Dalhart to El Paso, El Paso to Marfa, and Marfa to Mustang Beach. With fresh views of Texas's beaches and rivers, woodlands and deserts, cities and farms, A Mile above Texas offers an encompassing view of the state that perhaps only flyers and migratory birds have enjoyed before now." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jay B. SaucedaPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 24.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 32.40cm Weight: 1.760kg ISBN: 9781477318003ISBN 10: 1477318003 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 03 October 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsFrom sprawling cities to coastlines to deserts, Sauceda's 3,822-mile journey in the course of five days presents a view of Texas like you have never seen it before. * Alcalde * Author InformationJay B. Sauceda is a photographer, entrepreneur, and author of Y’all: The Definitive Guide to Being a Texan. His aerial photographs of Texas were first published in a photo essay in Texas Monthly. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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