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When Geraldine Watson's father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River. Watson grew up hearing his tales of the steamboats, log rafts, and the flora and fauna of East Texas. At the age of 63 she decided to repeat his odyssey in her own backwater boat. This is both the story of her journey retracing her father's steps and a natural and social history of the Neches region of the Big Th...

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Originally published in 1979, Geraldine Ellis Watson's Big Thicket Plant Ecology is now back in print. This updated edition explores the plant biology, ecology, geology, and environmental regions of the Big Thicket National Preserve. After decades of research on the Big Thicket, Watson concluded that the Big Thicket was unique for its biological diversity, due mainly to interactions of geology and climate. A visitor in the Big Thicket could lo...