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"Jay B. Sauceda is creating a new kind of literature for the state,
a visual literature that is as significant and powerful as John
Graves's Goodbye to a River, Robert Caro's The Path to Power, Edna
Ferber's Giant, or T. R. Fehrenbach's Lone Star. His compositions
accomplish what all great work does-offering a new way of seeing
things so familiar that we have stopped seeing them." -Rick Bass in
Texas Monthly On the ground, Texas is a vast patchwork of natural
and human landscapes-wide open spaces contrasting with sprawling
cities; the watery worlds of rivers, lakes, and coastlines giving
way to the arid vistas of plains and deserts. From the air, though,
Texas takes on a wholeness that unites the landscapes that people
manufacture with the land that nature still sculpts. This is the
Texas that Jay B. Sauceda portrays in A Mile above Texas, a book of
stunning aerial photographs that document the entire perimeter of
the state. Sauceda flew 3,822 miles, over five days in 2015, in a
single-engine Cessna. He shot more than 44,000 photos from the
plane, via handheld cameras and GoPros attached to the wings. This
book presents the very best of those photographs in sections that
cover each leg of the trip: Victoria to Marshall, Marshall to
Dalhart, Dalhart to El Paso, El Paso to Marfa, and Marfa to Mustang
Beach. With fresh views of Texas's beaches and rivers, woodlands
and deserts, cities and farms, A Mile above Texas offers an
encompassing view of the state that perhaps only flyers and
migratory birds have enjoyed before now.
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