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Adventures with a Texas Naturalist

Adventures with a Texas Naturalist

by Roy Bedichek

Introduction by Rick Bass

Illustrated by Ward Lockwood

Published by: University of Texas Press

Imprint: University of Texas Press

Digital download
9780292791992
Published: June 2010

Description
Contents
Praise

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.

Introduction 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

"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." ~Audubon

". . . Texas cannot really be known without reading Adventures with a Texas Naturalist." ~The 50 Best Books on Texas

"Whether 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." ~Houston Chronicle

"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." ~Austin American-Statesman