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

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

by Jordan Fisher Smith
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra

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

by Jordan Fisher Smith

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Overview

“A nature book unlike any other…peppered with gritty, anti-romantic, all-too-real tales of cops ’n’ bad guys in the great outdoors.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune


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 both portrays the breathtaking natural world around him and reveals the unexpectedly dark underbelly of patrolling and protecting public lands.
 
“Gloriously unlike anything I’ve ever read before…gives entree into a strange, dark, and mesmerizing outdoor world that's absolutely unforgettable.”—The Boston Globe
 
“By turns funny, poignant and surprising…an intimate memoir of the career of a state-park ranger. Not just any ranger, but one with a wicked pen, patrolling a doomed landscape.”—Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer
 
“Compelling…refreshingly unsentimental.”—Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams
 
“Smith offers a fresh perspective on our threatened environment…Nature Noir reflects the spirit of an era as did Desert Solitaire.”—Charlotte Observer

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780547526492
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 06/11/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 428,738
File size: 1 MB

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue1
1A Day in the Park7
2It Never Rains in California21
3Career Development43
4Occurrence at Yankee Jims Bridge62
5Rocks and Bones82
6The Bridge over Purgatory104
7A Natural Death120
8Finch Finds His Roots136
9Crossing the Mekong156
10As Weak as Water168
11Eight Mile Curve190
Epilogue202
Acknowledgments214
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