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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press

ISBN-100292703112

ISBN-139780292703117

eBay Product ID (ePID)91249

Product Key Features

Book TitleAdventures with a Texas Naturalist

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Regional, Essays

Publication Year1994

IllustratorLockwood, Ward, Yes

GenreNature

AuthorRoy Bedichek

Book SeriesTexas Classics Ser.

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsWhether studying the effects of grazing goats on roadside wildflowers or reveling in the fiery beauty of a vermilion flycatcher, Bedichek writes with a marvelous style that begs quotation at every turn., A Texan wholly devoted to his native Southwest, he was regional but not provincial.... Roy Bedichek was a true scientist, with a luminous curiosity more like the ancient Greeks' than today's., I wish some such book opening windows on the ground I belong to and arousing healthy curiosity about all things both great and small had been available when I, as a boy, always got books--good books--for Christmas. It is the kind of book that enlarges experience whether remembered or yet to come. It is a book to open eyes., A book that should be required reading in high school or college, one that ought to be in every deer camp or in every biker's pack. It is a thoughtful book but also pleasant to the senses. It is a book that can be read once and then delved into again some other time, as enduring as nature itself., You may not know the little birds from the little flowers and not even care to, but still you will find in Adventures with a Texas Naturalist a ripe mind seeing in all relationships the human significance.... His prose is modest and seemingly without art. And then you discover that this man who paid profound attention to everything writes like an angel.

Dewey Decimal574.9764

Table Of ContentIntroduction by Rick Bass Foreword Acknowledgments Author's Introduction 1. Fences: Fields and Pastures 2. Fences: Right-of-Ways 3. Still Water 4. The Wing Of The Swallow 5. Killers 6. A Bird and a Flower 7. "Co-Operatives" 8. "Co-Operatives" (continued) 9. Denatured Chickens 10. Davis Mountains Holiday: En Route 11. Davis Mountains Holiday: In Camp 12. The Golden Eagle 13. The Golden Eagle: Soarer 14. Nature Lore in Folklore 15. Folk-Naming of Birds and Flowers 16. The Mockingbird: Character and Disposition 17. Mockingbird: Singer 18. Mockingbird: Does He Mock? 19. Heronry on Keller's Creek 20. Nest Hunger 21. Root and Rock 22. Cedar Cutter Errata The Author's Emendations Index

SynopsisA classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world., A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world. This reprint contains a new introduction by noted nature writer Rick Bass.