Karánkaway Country

Texas writer, educator, and naturalist Roy Bedichek was born in 1878 and came to Texas as a young child in 1884. He was always interested in Texas nature but it was not until 1946 with the urging of friends including J. Frank Dobie that he wrote his first book. Karankaway Country is his second book, originally published in 1950. In it, Bedichek takes on efforts to assist the endangered whooping cranes, water rights issues, the decline of the Atwater prairie chicken, and other nature stories of the Texas Gulf Coast. Bedichek is a delightful writer, witty, clever, and always on point, and the stories he tells are surprisingly relevant today.

For more about Roy Bedichek, see the PBS special, Roy Bedichek's Vanishing Frontier.