Most visitors to Big Bend National Park enjoy a wonderful, incident-free
vacation and return home with great photos, thrilling memories, and stories
of excitement and adventure. But accidents, even catastrophes, can happen.
For a rare few park visitors, a simple mistake, a lack of adequate
preparation, or just plain bad luck has led to deadly or near deadly outcomes.
Heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, drowning, falls, lightning, and even
murder have claimed victims at Big Bend. This book chronicles selected serious
injuries, dramatic rescues, and tragic fatalities that have occurred in the
park since the early 1980s. Death in Big Bend contains useful information
that could one day save your life.
About the Author...
Laurence Parent was born and raised in New
Mexico. After receiving a petroleum engineering degree at the University of Texas
at Austin in 1981, he practiced engineering for six years before becoming a
full-time freelance photographer and writer specializing in landscape, travel,
and nature subjects. Hundreds of his photos appear in calendars every year.
His article and photo credits include National Geographic Traveler
, Men's Journal, Outside, Backpacker,
Sierra, Natural History, National
Parks, Newsweek, Arizona Highways, Travel &
Leisure, and The New York Times. He contributes regularly to
regional publications such as Texas Highways, Texas
Monthly, New Mexico Magazine,
and Texas Parks & Wildlife. Parent has done 38 books. His latest is a large format
color book, Big River, Rio Grande, that was released in the fall of 2009. Another
large format color book, Portrait of Austin, was released in October 2008. In 2007,
the large format coffee-table book, New Mexico Wild and
Beautiful, was published.
Also in 2007, he had three other books published: Austin Impressions, San Antonio
Impressions, and Santa Fe Impressions. Additional books and credits appear on his
website, www.laurenceparent.com.
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