Texas Hill Country

Finally, someone captures the beauty and serenity Texas' most wonderful region, without feeling compelled to show pictures of big cities and subdivisions from overhead!! I have searched for years for such book, and John Graves definitly delivers it!This book is full of interesting historic information, fused with lovely countryside images of the hill country.My only comment is that it would have been nice to have an idea (page by page) of where the pictures were taken. To find out, one must flip back and forth to the index page and cross-reference it with page numbers (which are not on all the pages). On the other-hand, the photos are not "soiled" with a bunch of letters, words, numbers, etc.A really nice coffee table book for those who love the heart of Texas.

Love the Hill Country so this book had all the books and crannies info I was looking for!

This is a beautiful book. I really wanted to get a feel for what the area was about before we decide where to retire. The book honestly portrays that part of the country.

beautiful pictures.

Great photos

This book is more than just a coffee table book with pictures of the cheesy pictures of alamo. This is a beautifully expressed book that has both personal essays and photos that rally give an accurate and thoughtful glimpse into the best part of Texas.Well worth it.

I purchased this rather expensive "coffee table" book with the hope of receiving an idealized photo-documentary of the Hill Country (at least, more than what I already know). I got a big book with lots of mundane landscape scenes - many shrouded in fog and cloud cover. Sort of like battlefield pictures long after a war ended.The narrative was short and basically a flashback of the writer's utopic vision of the Hill Country set against the current status quo. Not the kind of story that inspires you to rush to Central Texas and explore.

This is the essential photo collection of Texas Hill country scenes. Photos at different seasons & wide variety of "cultural" and purely natural scenes. I've sent copies to friends outside the USA to show that Texas is not just a prairie like the scenes in the movie "Giant"