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.
A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the n...
Roy Bedichek, author of "Adventures with a Texas Naturalist" and close friend of J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb, loved both reading and writing letters. His often expressed wish that more letters and journals would be published has been brought to bear on his own work by his daughter-in-law, Jane Gracy Bedichek, who offers a selection of the Bedichek family correspondences. The collection shows once again what talent Bedichek had for describing the world around him, and for expressing his opinion of that world, but they also reveal his interest and involvement in his children's...
Roy Bedichek, author of "Adventures with a Texas Naturalist" and close friend of J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb, loved both reading and writi...
Roy Bedichek spent most of his life working in the educational field in Texas, but his main interest was always the great outdoors. His first book, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, was published when he was almost seventy, and his second, Karankaway Country, appeared three years later. Both were the result of a lifetime of exploring a beloved land, of searching observation, of discussion, debate, wide reading, and reflection. Long out of print, Karankaway Country is now available in a handsome second edition with a new Foreword by W. W. Newcomb,...
Roy Bedichek spent most of his life working in the educational field in Texas, but his main interest was always the great outdoors. His first book,...
"They wouldn't let him rest--even in his grave." Thus Charles Carver opens his story of the climactic years of a journalist who had poured out such blazing prose that readers from England to Hawaii mourned his murder.
The impact of William Cowper Brann's Iconoclast upon the town of Waco, Texas, in the 1890's was like a rocket burst in a quiet sky. Rebelling against Victorian hypocrisy, the newspaperman took aim at organized virtue, exemplified for him by Baylor University and other Baptist organizations.
Dr. Roy Bedichek, noted author and naturalist, knew Brann,...
"They wouldn't let him rest--even in his grave." Thus Charles Carver opens his story of the climactic years of a journalist who had poured out such...
