Death In Big Bend - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death In Big Bend write by Laurence Parent. This book was released on 2010. Death In Big Bend available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most people visit Big Bend National Park and have a wonderful, incident-free vacation. For a tiny number, however, a simple mistake, unpreparedness, or pure bad luck has lead to catastrophe. Massive rescue efforts and fatalities, while rare, do happen at the park. Heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, drowning, falls, lightning, and even murder have claimed victims at Big Bend. This book chronicles selected rescues and tragedies that have happened there since the early 1980s. The lessons you learn reading this book may save your life.
Exploring the Big Bend Country
Exploring the Big Bend Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the Big Bend Country write by Peter Koch. This book was released on 2009-02-17. Exploring the Big Bend Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of writings and images by the legendary Big Bend photographer offers adventure, history, personal musings, and natural beauty. Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks, and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch’s magnificent photographs and documentary films introduced the park to people across the United States and remain an invaluable visual record of the first four decades of Big Bend National Park. In this book, Koch’s daughter June Cooper Price draws on her father’s photographs, newspaper columns, and journal entries, as well as short pieces by other family members, to present his vision and many experiences of the Big Bend. The adventure begins with a six-day photographic trip through Santa Elena Canyon on a raft made from agave flower stalks. Koch also describes hiking on mountain trails and driving the scenic loop around Fort Davis; “wax smuggling” and other ways of making a living on the Mexican border; ranching in the Big Bend; collaborating with botanist Barton Warnock; and the history and beauty of Presidio County, the Rio Grande, and the Chihuahuan Desert.
Death in Yellowstone
Death in Yellowstone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in Yellowstone write by Lee H. Whittlesey. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Death in Yellowstone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly—from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park.
Hiking Big Bend National Park
Hiking Big Bend National Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hiking Big Bend National Park write by Laurence Parent. This book was released on 2005-06-01. Hiking Big Bend National Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive guide features forty-seven trails in Big Bend National Park.
A Year in the National Parks
A Year in the National Parks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Year in the National Parks write by Stefanie Payne. This book was released on 2018-05. A Year in the National Parks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.
