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.

"To me, it has as much strength and message . . . as Leopold's A Sand County Almanac or Thoreau's Walden." -- from the Introduction by Rick Bass "A Texan wholly devoted to his native Southwest, he was regional but not provincial.... Roy Bedichek was a true scientist, with a luminous curiosity more like the ancient Greeks' than today's." -- Audubon "You may not know the little birds from the little flowers and not even care to, but still you will find in Adventures with a Texas Naturalist a ripe mind seeing in all relationships the human significance.... His prose is modest and seemingly without art. And then you discover that this man who paid profound attention to everything writes like an angel." -- Lon Tinkle "I wish some such book opening windows on the ground I belong to and arousing healthy curiosity about all things both great and small had been available when I, as a boy, always got books-- good books-- for Christmas. It is the kind of book that enlarges experience whether remembered or yet to come. It is a book to open eyes." -- J. Frank Dobie ." . . Texas cannot really be known without reading Adventures with a Texas Naturalist." -- A. C. Greene, The 50 Best Books on Texas 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.