This is achronicle of a few of the most fascinating natural places in Texas. Justice Douglas describes each in exquisite detail.

At the end of the book you read that he had a grand plan to put al of them in the public domain and also to protect the precarious ecological balance of a few fragile ones. But you learn that the plan was not well received and most of the places are now severely degraded, or gone and the opportunity lost.

So the book is melancholy but still the graphic detail about the special places makes the book worth reading. ( )