Paddling the Guadalupe

by Wayne H. McAlister

For more than forty years, Wayne H. McAlister has canoed the Guadalupe River, sometimes called the "top recreational river in Texas." In Paddling the Guadalupe, he guides readers down this 400-mile river whose waters spring from the limestone of the Hill Country in Kerr County, meander across the broad Coastal Plain, and finally empty into the Gulf of Mexico at San Antonio Bay.

With the expertise of a life and career immersed in nature, he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603440216
• ISBN13: 9781603440219
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Paddling the Guadalupe

A superb book and a must for any Texan in particular and any lover of nature in general. Extremely well written. It is the equal of John Graves's Goodbye to a River.

Loved this book

At first blush, this is just a great book about the Guadalupe River. But as you read Dr. McAlister's exacting prose, you quickly realize that this is a book about a man's life, his journeys and studies and how they have been so closely tied to this river. This book which documents a lifetime's metaphysical journey, reminded me so much of Persig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", I would suggest buying a copy of that as well.