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Karánkaway Country

Roy Bedichek

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English
University of Texas Press
01 January 1974
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, Karánkaway 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, Karánkaway Country is now available in a handsome second edition with a new Foreword by W. W. Newcomb, Jr.

Karánkaway Country focuses on the natural history of a strip of coastal prairie lying roughly between Corpus Christi and Galveston and once inhabited by the poorly known and much maligned Karankawa Indians. It serves as home base for an exposition of Bedichek's philosophy, providing a convenient local setting for richly tailored essays on wildlife, soil, human skin, and a variety of other topics suggested by a wide-ranging intellect. Bedichek's philosophy, if it can be reduced to a few words, is essentially that humans must learn to live on peaceful and conciliatory terms with our natural environment.

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Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9780292743045
ISBN 10:   0292743041
Pages:   318
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Karánkaway Country

The record, in almost the style of a personal journal, of Mr. Bedichek's lifelong love affair with the out of doors, and a regional book that expands our limited knowledge of that a piece of Texas littoral lying between Galveston and Corpus Christi, and named after a now extinct Indian tribe. The author is deeply concerned in problems of conservation of the land, water and wild life, and repeatedly indicates how cruelly abused the area is by the citizenry. His focus is on the animal world, and he treats cranes, coons, wild goats and many other species with the detailed interest and the occasional drama other writers would give to human beings. Through observation backed by research he explores the aspects of rivers, dust storms, native Texan architecture- and the sky, which he views more as poet than astronomer. Communicable response to man's natural habitat and his fellow creatures- gentle but righteous insistence on respect and fair play....Not in the class with Peattie, but approaching that sort of market. (Kirkus Reviews)


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