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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Contributor(s): Smith, Jordan Fisher (Author)

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 ISBN: 0618711953     ISBN-13: 9780618711956
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE: $17.09  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2006
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Annotation: Smith chronicles his 14 years as a park ranger on a huge tract of government land in the Sierras, illuminating some startling truths about America's wild lands.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.60 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
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Publisher Description:
A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures. In unflinchingly honest prose, he reveals the unexpectedly dark underbelly of patrolling and protecting public lands.

Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Jordan Fisher: - Jordan Fisher Smith has been a park ranger for more than twenty years in Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska, and California. Nature Noir is his first book. He lives with his wife and two young children in the northern Sierra Nevada.
 
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