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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
by Jordan Fisher Smith
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780618711956 |
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Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"He writes about the natural world with more grace than anyone since Edward Abbey."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780618711956
- Subtitle:
- A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Mariner Books
- Location:
- Boston
- Subject:
- Mountains
- Subject:
- Personal Memoirs
- Subject:
- Naturalists, Gardeners, Environmentalists
- Copyright:
- 2006
- 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.
