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    Adventures with a Texas Naturalist

    Roy Bedichek (Author), Rick Bass (Introduction by), Ward Lockwood (Illustrated by)

    9780292703117

    Paperback / softback, published 1 September 1994

    368 pages
    21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg

    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.
    - A. C. Greene (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.
    - John and Gloria Tveten (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)

    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
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