BooksTwo books. One's funny, one's from a mile up.
1 · Book oneY'all Need This Book: The Definitive Guide to Being Texan
A field guide to being a Texan, for natives, transplants, and the confused. It's the Texas Humor sense of humor in print, packed with the stuff every Texan already knows and every newcomer needs to learn fast. More than 50,000 copies sold, and it still makes a great gift for the cousin who just moved here.
2 · Book twoA Mile Above Texas
I got my pilot's license, loaded a camera into a small plane, and flew the entire border of Texas: 3,822 miles of coastline, river, and arrow-straight survey lines in five days, shooting more than 44,000 photos along the way. The photos show the state the way almost nobody gets to see it, and what it taught me about the people who live along its edges. Published by University of Texas Press, with 142 color photographs, and later a solo exhibition at the Bullock Texas State History Museum.
"…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."
Rick Bass, Texas Monthly
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