". . . a wonderful read. . . Winningtham not only revels in the history of the regions he traverses, he exhibits his own essential humanity in his dealings with and regard for people he meets--often less educated and fortunate than himself. . . flows seamlessly and smoothly introducing the reader to Texas, Spanish and Mexican history as it has intermixed and blended in the years since Pineda surveyed the coastline for the Spanish Crown."--Bill Wright, independent writer and photographer, author of The Texas Outback Texas A&M University Press, 2004

"This book, once begun, is difficult to put down. A masterpiece of story-telling, illuminated by breath-taking images, it is enlivened with the author’s adventures as he traverses the shore of the Spanish Sea—often turned aside by the heart-rending circumstances of the people he meets; truly a wonderful book, worthy of gracing any bookshelf or bedside table."—Robert S. Weddle, author of Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500-1665 Texas A&M University Press, 2000

“Why should we love the world, the difficult world? Accomplished picture makers and storytellers, of whom Geoff Winningham is surely one, us toward an answer by describing individual regions—in this case the relatively little known western Gulf Coast—so vividly and fondly that they impart even to our distant homes a borrowed splendor. I am grateful. Winningham knows that he has composed in some respects an elegy, but it is a tender and redemptive one.”—Robert Adams, photographer

“Master photographer/journalist Geoff Winningham’s Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea is a lyrical confluence of images and text – both a picture book and biography of that great sweep of landscape and people and history that stretches 1,500 miles south from the refinery-infested air along the Texas/Louisiana border all the way down the Gulf Coast to the Shangri La of the Sierra de Tuxtla in southern Veracruz. With his camera and notebook Mister Winningham traveled every mile of it, stopping to visit with people he met along the way, making his journey one of the heart as well as of the eye. Never preachy, the resulting book is, by example, both a lament for what has been despoiled or lost, and a celebration for what remains. And most certainly it is a work of art.”—Bill Wittliff