My Stories, All True

My Stories, All True
Author: Pamela A. LeBlanc
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1623498856


Download My Stories, All True Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

J. David Bamberger has been profiled in the New York Times and the New Yorker, interviewed on NPR, and featured in a National Geographic video. He and his Texas Hill Country ranch have been the subject of many articles and two books published by Texas A&M University Press. In My Stories, All True, Bamberger, now in his nineties, tells the story of his life as an entrepreneur and conservationist in his own way. He recounts to journalist and friend Pamela LeBlanc how he made a living as a vacuum cleaner salesman, struck it rich as a partner in a wildly successful chain of fried chicken restaurants, and bought, then brought back to life, the “sorriest piece of land” in Blanco County, Texas—the rural oasis he calls Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve. For more than a year, Bamberger and LeBlanc roamed the preserve—five thousand acres nursed back to environmental health with money earned from the sale of Church’s Chicken—as Bamberger reminisced about losing his father in a steel factory accident; gathering mushrooms to sell to neighbors when he was a kid; making a living as a door-to-door salesman; running a multimillion-dollar restaurant business; rubbing shoulders with the likes of Sam Walton, Jane Goodall, and Lady Bird Johnson; and, finally, turning to his land for the work that has earned national acclaim. With a storyteller’s flair and insightful commentary from LeBlanc, Bamberger shares the tales of a remarkable life—as a resourceful country boy, a savvy entrepreneur, and a consummate conservationist whose vision has set the standard for the restoration of nature on private lands worldwide.


My Stories, All True
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Pamela A. LeBlanc
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-25 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

GET EBOOK

J. David Bamberger has been profiled in the New York Times and the New Yorker, interviewed on NPR, and featured in a National Geographic video. He and his Texas
My Lie
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Meredith Maran
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-05 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

GET EBOOK

Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. During the 1980s and
Back to Moscow
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Guillermo Erades
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-03 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

GET EBOOK

Tuesday night: vodka and dancing at the Hungry Duck. Wednesday morning: posing as an expert on Pushkin at the university. Thursday night: more vodka and girl-ch
My True Love Gave to Me
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Stephanie Perkins
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-14 - Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

GET EBOOK

Twelve romantic holiday stories by twelve bestselling young adult authors edited by Stephanie Perkins. If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-
Show Me All Your Scars
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Lee Gutkind
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-17 - Publisher: Underland Press

GET EBOOK

Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their