Abstract
THE scene of this book is in Texas, and its theme is the effect of the white man on animal and plant life. The author begins : "I have been looking over a two-hundred-acre plot of fenced land and trying to compare the life it now supports with that which it had been supporting for thousands of years when the first white man occupied it a hundred years ago". Although Mr. Roy Bedichek entitles his work, "Adventures with a Naturalist", although the title is excellent and he takes us on many delightful adventures observing a variety of birds, mammals and plants, we ever come back to the distressing effect of the white man, his agriculture and other activities, on the indigenous fauna and flora, an all too sad effect not limited to the American continent, but associated with him the world over. This is an interesting and pleasant book, despite its preoccupation with a mournful theme, and covers a wide field of Nature and country life.
Adventures with a Naturalist
By Roy Bedichek. Pp. 258. (London: Victor Gollanez, Ltd., 1948.) 12s. 6d. net.
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PITT, F. Adventures with a Naturalist. Nature 162, 513 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162513e0
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