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Big Bend National Park (Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series)

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Big Bend National Park is likely one of the few places left in The united states where a person can literally get away from it all. Nestled in the great bend of the Rio Grande that forms some of the distinctive features of the silhouette of Texas, the park is several hundred miles from any large city. Within its 1,250 square miles of mountains, canyons, desert, and river, Big Bend National Park offers visitors respite from the stresses of urban living—a place for taking stock and charting new courses. That’s one it’s because many of us return to the park year after year.

This book is the first and only comprehensive photographic and word portrait of Big Bend National Park. Laurence Parent presents a magnificent photo gallery of park scenes. He portrays the mountain ranges—Chisos, Dead Horse, Rosillos, and Sierra del Carmen—from dawn to moonrise and in all seasons and weather. He includes dramatic images of Santa Elena, Mariscal, and Boquillas canyons, in addition to landmark features such as Mule Ears Peaks, Elephant Tusk, and the Chisos Basin Window. Parent also portrays the ephemeral wonderful thing about Big Bend wildflowers, including giant bluebonnets and blooming prickly pear cactus, in addition to 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-gathers who ranged over the region to Cabeza de Vaca, who was once probably the first European to see Big Bend, to the creation of the national park in the 1930s and 1940s. Patoski also summarizes up to date conservation efforts that have led to the protection of 2.1 million acres on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Although no single book could ever hope to contain the vastness of Big Bend National Park between two covers, this one beautifully captures its essence.

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