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Marfa Flights : Aerial Views of Big Bend Country /
Take an unforgettable sky excursion over Big Bend with photographer Paul Chaplo as he captures the shapes, textures, and colors of the craggy, weathered landforms people usually see only from the ground-and some places no photographer has gone before. Flying from Marfa, and hanging precariously from...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Photographer's Preface; Introduction; Flight Routes Map; I. The Journey Begins: The Flight from Marfa, Texas; 1. Marfa Flats and Haystacks; 2. Departing Marfa; 3. Marfa Yacht Club; 4. Marfa Flats; 5. Diverging Road and Railroad; 6. Velvet Hills; 7. Juniper-Dotted Valley; 8. End of the Road; 9. Into the Abyss; 10. Chinati Mountains; 11. Chinati Peak; 12. Precipice; 13. A Thousand Mount Saint Helens; II. Along Texas Highway 118: Heading South from Alpine, Texas; 14. Cathedral Mountain Silhouette; 15. Mountain Ridges at Sunrise; 16. Goat Mountain.
- 17. Canyons on Nine Point Mesa18. Looking into Pipeline Canyon; 19. A New Home for Bighorn Sheep; 20. Corazones Mountains; 21. Marfa Lights, Backstage; 22. Kokernot Mesain Morning Haze; III. Into the Heart of Big Bend National Park: Exploring the Chisos Mountains; 23. Chisos Mountains Vista; 24. Panther Junction; 25. Green Gulch; 26. Northwest Side of Pulliam Ridge; 27. South Rim and Emory Peak; 28. Lower Juniper Spring; 29. Fresno Creek; 30. Approach to Pine Canyon; 31. Over the Dodson Trail; 32. Crown Mountain; 33. Across the Window; 34. Looking toward Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive.
- 35. Beyond Blue Creek to Burro Mesa36. Ward Mountain; 37. The Divide of Smoky Creek and Blue Creek; 38. Upper Fresno Creek; 39. Chisos Mountains Panorama; 40. Pine Canyon; 41. Nugent Mountain; 42. Through the Window; IV. Looking for Water: Across Tornillo Flats to Ernst Tinaja; 43. Dugout Wells; 44. Tornillo Creek; 45. The Land of Ernst; 46. Old Ore Road; 47. Ernst Tinaja; 48. Ernst Valley; V. The Rio Grande: Flying Upstream to Smoky Creek; 49. Rio Grande, Silver Shining River; 50. Langford Hot Springs; 51. Boquillas Crossing; 52. Rio Grande Village; 53. San Vicente Panorama.
- 54. The Road to San Vicente Crossing55. Gazing toward San Vicente, Mexico; 56. Rooney's Place; 57. Badlands; 58. Solis; 59. Mariscal Mountain; 60. Erosion Flower; 61. Earth Marks; 62. The Loop; 63. Sierra Chino Site; 64. Sierra Ponce; VI. Canyons and Drug Lords: The Rio Grande Upstream from Santa Elena Village to Lajitas; 65. The Farmland of Santa Elena, Mexico; 66. Rio Grande, River of Life; 67. Santa Elena Canyon; 68. Overlooking the Scenic Overlook; 69. Crossing the Terlingua Fault; 70. Top of Mesa de Anguila; 71. Magma Dike on Mesa de Anguila; 72. Mesas on Mesa.
- 73. Mesa de Anguila and Sierra Ponce Vista74. Upstream Mouth; 75. Metates Camp; 76. Rio Grande; 77, 78. Tuff Canyons (1 and 2); 79. False Sentinel; 80. The First Good One; 81. Resort Golf Course; VII. In Search of Ghost Towns: Flying Inland to the Lone Star and Mariposa Quicksilver Mines; 82. Lone Star Mine Road; 83. Terlingua Hills; 84. Villa de la Mina; 85. Ghost Town; 86. Quicksilver Mines; 87. Canyon amid the Mines; 88. Sawmill Mountain; 89. Pinks Peak; VIII. Into the Devil's Playground: Flying North from Terlingua to Alamo de Cesario Creek; 90. Strawberry-Colored Tuff.