| #378698 in Books | 2017-05-08 | 2017-05-08 | Original language:English | 9.00 x.31 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 128 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| I was very disappointed as this item was listed as a paperback|By George A. Kithas|I was very disappointed as this item was listed as a paperback, so I expected a paperback book with postcards about Galveston. I was correct that the item contained postcards, but I did not expect them to be loose and not bound together at all! This item should not be included in the "Book" sect|About the Author|Kimber Fountain grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast and was a frequent visitor to Galveston as a child and a teen. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in theatre and dance from the University of Texas at Austin, she spent many years in Chicago
Along Galveston's Gulf Coast runs a seventeen-foot-high, ten-mile-long protective barrier--a response to the nation's all-time deadliest natural disaster. The seawall remains a stoic protector more than a century later, shielding the island from much more than physical destruction. As the foundation of Seawall Boulevard, this structure created an entirely new tourism industry that buoyed the city's economy through war, the Great Depression and hurricanes. Adapting to the...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Galveston Seawall Chronicles (Landmarks) | Kimber Fountain. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
