Karankaway Country

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