Parent, Laurence
Big Bend National Park / photographs by Laurence Parent ; text by Joe Nick Patoski. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006. - 102 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm. - Bill and Alice Wright photography series .
This book is the first and only comprehensive photographic and word portrait of Big Bend National Park. Laurence Parent presents a photo gallery of park scenes. He portrays the mountain ranges - Chisos, Dead Horse, Rosillos, and Sierra del Carmen - from first light to moonrise in all seasons and weather. He includes dramatic images of Santa Elena, Mariscal, and Boquillas canyons, as well as landmark features such as Mule Ears Peaks, Elephant Tusk, and the Chisos Basin Window. Parent also portrays the ephemeral beauty of Big Bend wildflowers, including giant bluebonnets and blooming prickly pear cactus, as well as the traces of human habitation at ghost towns scattered around the park."; "Joe Nick Patoski complements Parent's images with a masterfully crafted word portrait of Big Bend National Park. Patoski describes the powerful geologic and volcanic forces that created the awe-inspiring landscape of the Big Bend. He reviews the park's natural history and also its human history, from the prehistoric hunter-gatherers who ranged over the region to Cabeza de Vaca, who was probably the first European to see Big Bend, to the creation of the national park in the 1930s and 1940s. Patoski also summarizes recent conservation efforts that have led to the protection of 2.4 million acres on both sides of the Rio Grande."--Jacket.
0292714416 ((cl.) : alk. paper) 9780292714410 ((cl.) : alk. paper)
2005035648
013526863 Uk
Big Bend National Park--Texas--Pictorial works
Big Bend National Park (Tex.)
F392.B53 / P37 2006
976.493200222 Par 15
Big Bend National Park / photographs by Laurence Parent ; text by Joe Nick Patoski. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006. - 102 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm. - Bill and Alice Wright photography series .
This book is the first and only comprehensive photographic and word portrait of Big Bend National Park. Laurence Parent presents a photo gallery of park scenes. He portrays the mountain ranges - Chisos, Dead Horse, Rosillos, and Sierra del Carmen - from first light to moonrise in all seasons and weather. He includes dramatic images of Santa Elena, Mariscal, and Boquillas canyons, as well as landmark features such as Mule Ears Peaks, Elephant Tusk, and the Chisos Basin Window. Parent also portrays the ephemeral beauty of Big Bend wildflowers, including giant bluebonnets and blooming prickly pear cactus, as well as the traces of human habitation at ghost towns scattered around the park."; "Joe Nick Patoski complements Parent's images with a masterfully crafted word portrait of Big Bend National Park. Patoski describes the powerful geologic and volcanic forces that created the awe-inspiring landscape of the Big Bend. He reviews the park's natural history and also its human history, from the prehistoric hunter-gatherers who ranged over the region to Cabeza de Vaca, who was probably the first European to see Big Bend, to the creation of the national park in the 1930s and 1940s. Patoski also summarizes recent conservation efforts that have led to the protection of 2.4 million acres on both sides of the Rio Grande."--Jacket.
0292714416 ((cl.) : alk. paper) 9780292714410 ((cl.) : alk. paper)
2005035648
013526863 Uk
Big Bend National Park--Texas--Pictorial works
Big Bend National Park (Tex.)
F392.B53 / P37 2006
976.493200222 Par 15