By Roy Bedichek
ISBN-10: 0292743041
ISBN-13: 9780292743045
Roy Bedichek spent such a lot of his lifestyles operating within the academic box in Texas, yet his major curiosity used to be continuously the nice open air. His first e-book, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, used to be released while he used to be nearly seventy, and his moment, Karánkaway Country, seemed 3 years later. either have been the results of a life of exploring a liked land, of looking commentary, of dialogue, debate, broad interpreting, and mirrored image. lengthy out of print, Karánkaway Country is now on hand in a good-looking moment version with a brand new Foreword by means of W. W. Newcomb, Jr.
Karánkaway Country makes a speciality of the common historical past of a strip of coastal prairie mendacity approximately among Corpus Christi and Galveston and as soon as inhabited via the poorly identified and lots more and plenty maligned Karankawa Indians. It serves as domestic base for an exposition of Bedichek's philosophy, offering a handy neighborhood surroundings for richly adapted essays on natural world, soil, human pores and skin, and quite a few different subject matters urged through a wide-ranging mind. Bedichek's philosophy, if it may be decreased to a couple phrases, is basically that people needs to discover ways to live to tell the tale peaceable and conciliatory phrases with our usual environment.
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