{"product_id":"adventures-with-a-texas-naturalist-paperback-softback-9780292703117","title":"Adventures with a Texas Naturalist (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292703117","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAdventures with a Texas Naturalist\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoy Bedichek (Author), Rick Bass (Introduction by), Ward Lockwood (Illustrated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292703117\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eA 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.\u003c\/div\u003e (Audubon) \u003cdiv\u003e. . Texas cannot really be known without reading \u003ci\u003eAdventures with a Texas Naturalist.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - A. C. Greene (The 50 Best Books on Texas) \u003cdiv\u003eWhether 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.\u003c\/div\u003e - John and Gloria Tveten (Houston Chronicle) \u003cdiv\u003eA 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.\u003c\/div\u003e (Austin American-Statesman)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA classic since its first publication in 1947, \u003ci\u003eAdventures with a Texas Naturalist\u003c\/i\u003e distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world. This reprint contains a new introduction by noted nature writer Rick Bass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction by Rick Bass\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Author's Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Fences: Fields and Pastures\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fences: Right-of-Ways\u003cbr\u003e 3. Still Water\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Wing Of The Swallow\u003cbr\u003e 5. Killers\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Bird and a Flower\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"\u003cbr\u003eCo-Operatives\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"\u003cbr\u003eCo-Operatives\"\u003cbr\u003e (continued)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Denatured Chickens\u003cbr\u003e 10. Davis Mountains Holiday: En Route\u003cbr\u003e 11. Davis Mountains Holiday: In Camp\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Golden Eagle\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Golden Eagle: Soarer\u003cbr\u003e 14. Nature Lore in Folklore\u003cbr\u003e 15. Folk-Naming of Birds and Flowers\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Mockingbird: Character and Disposition\u003cbr\u003e 17. Mockingbird: Singer\u003cbr\u003e 18. Mockingbird: Does He Mock?\u003cbr\u003e 19. Heronry on Keller's Creek\u003cbr\u003e 20. Nest Hunger\u003cbr\u003e 21. Root and Rock\u003cbr\u003e 22. Cedar Cutter\u003cbr\u003e Errata\u003cbr\u003e The Author's Emendations\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52716892225816,"sku":"9780292703117","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/adventures-with-a-texas-naturalist-paperback-softback-9780292703117","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}