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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra

by Jordan Fisher Smith

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ISBN13: 9780618711956
ISBN10: 0618711953
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

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.

Review:

"Extraordinary . . . Nature Noir marks the debut of a terrific new nature writer, one whose penetrating, ranger's-eye view of the Sierra Nevada recalls the plain-spoken timbre of Edward Abbey and David James Duncan."

Review:

"Not only an electrifying tale of bringing the law to the wild west in the 1980s and '90s but also a graphic piece of writing from someone who has learned his craft from the royalty of American naturalists: writers like Gary Snyder, Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey."

Review:

"Astonishing and fine . . . graceful, disturbing. . . [a] remarkable, hard-to-classify book."

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"A nature book unlike any other. . . infused with wonder, laced with heart-stopping descriptions of natural beauty and peppered with gritty, anti-romantic, all-too-real tales of cops 'n' bad guys in the great outdoors."

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780618711956
Subtitle:
A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Author:
Smith, Jordan Fisher
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
Boston
Subject:
Mountains
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Naturalists, Gardeners, Environmentalists
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
May 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
216
Dimensions:
8.30x5.56x.55 in. .51 lbs.
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