Author: Jordan Fisher Smith Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Adventure
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ISBNs: 9780618711956 0618711953 |
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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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