Big Wonderful Thing - Stephen Harrigan

Written by Stephen Harrigan
Read by George Guidall
Format: M4B
Unabridged

I believe this may be the most engaging and recent comprehensive history of Texas available on audiobook.

Currently rated as: 4.58, 528 ratings109 reviews on Goodreads, 4.8 with 105 reviews on marketplace.

Series: Book 1, The Texas Bookshelf
Release date: 11-27-19
Length: 28 hrs and 54 mins
944 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2019
Series
Book 1, The Texas Bookshelf
Release date
11-27-19
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length:28 hrs and 54 mins

944 pages
Published: October 1, 2019
ISBN: 9780292759510 (ISBN10: 0292759517)
ASIN: 0292759517

Marketplace description:
The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world.”I couldn’t believe Texas was real”, the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.”Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists - all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea.Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.