Karánkaway Country

By Roy Bedichek

Book Overview

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, Kar nkaway 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, Kar nkaway Country is now available in a handsome second edition with a new Foreword by W. W. Newcomb, Jr.

Kar nkaway 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292743041
• ISBN13: 9780292743045
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"