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NATURE NOIR: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierras.
by Smith, Jordan Fisher
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small donation stamp on title page)./like
- ISBN 10
- 0618224165
- ISBN 13
- 9780618224166
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New York & Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2005.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small donation stamp on title page).. First printing. Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "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." Map. 216 pp.
Synopsis
Nature Noir is the intensely original story -- part Edward Abbey, part James Ellroy -- of Jordan Fisher Smith's fourteen years as a park ranger on forty-eight miles of Sierra Nevada river canyons. The gorgeous government-owned land along the American River that Fisher Smith and his band of fellow rangers have pledged to protect is (think Catch-22) condemned to be inundated by a huge dam. As Smith learns from his first day on patrol, the provisional quality of life here attracts the marginal and the pure crazy. Ranger work, in this place where wildness tends toward the human kind, includes encounters with armed miners who scour canyons for gold, drug-addled squatters, and extreme recreators who enjoy combining motorcycles, parachutes, and high bridges. Nature Noir reveals some startling truths about park rangering on America's public lands. In one heart-stopping scene, Smith comes across the corpse of a woman runner, killed and partly eaten by a mountain lion -- the first Californian to die in that way since the nineteenth century. Elsewhere, the predator on the loose may be human, and Smith goes looking for the bones of a long-missing woman in the surreal landscape around a half-constructed dam slowly reverting to wild.
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- Title
- NATURE NOIR: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierras.
- Author
- Smith, Jordan Fisher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small donation stamp on title page).
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618224165
- ISBN 13
- 9780618224166
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- New York & Boston:
- Date Published
- 2005.
- LCCN
- 2004059416
- Keywords
- auburn recreation area, park ranger, autobiography, foresthill, dam-building, sierra nevada mountains, american river,
- Bookseller catalogs
- California;
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