A classic since its first publication in 1947,Adventures with a Texas Naturalistdistills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world. This reprint contains a new introduction by noted nature writer Rick Bass.
A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world.
Roy Bedichek (1878–1959) was a naturalist and folklorist.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
You may not know the little birds from the little flowers and not even care to, but still you will find inAdventures with a Texas Naturalista 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.
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. Itl2
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