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Chargement... Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks (original 2010; édition 2010)par Andrea Lankford (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreRanger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks par Andrea Lankford (2010)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. So, this was a fun romp into the world of park rangers. They're dashing and daring and spend a lot of time in extreme weather situations with tourists doing dumb things. The book pacing is a little odd, the chapters are disconnected, and mostly it reads kind of like a listicle, but it's fun. I will say, this book makes a terrible travel companion. Don't be me: reading it before hiking is a bad idea that will cause you to quake in your hiking boots, imagining everything that can go wrong. Lankford pulls no punches telling us that it is only the illusion of safety that gets us into the great outdoors. I read it while hiking in the Alps and wanted my illusion of safety back! ( ) To begin positively, this book really opened my eyes! I had no idea how hard it was to be a park ranger, and how many difficult challenges they face! Robberies, assaults, and death seem to be just as much a part of the job as camp fires and nature talks! My large hat is off to them! As for my feelings about this book, well, I don't think I liked it. It seems much to focused on death, and in very descriptive, stomach-churning detail. Each person introduced has some horrible death in their story. Most of the calls described are about dead people. If I were even remotely thinking about being a ranger, this book would totally turn me off. It seems like the author did not like her job, her co-workers, or, most especially, the public. It says that she did it for 12 years, but I have no idea why. The book is titled "Ranger Confidential" but it really should be "Reasons Why Being a Park Ranger Sucks". I'm so glad I never met her in any park I've visited, nor any of the people she describes in here. My large hat off to all the rangers who have made all of my visits so special! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML:For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it. In this graphic and yet surprisingly funny account of her and others' extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world in which park rangers struggle to maintain their idealism in the face of death, disillusionment, and the loss of a comrade killed while holding that thin green line between protecting the park from the people, the people from the park, and the people from each other. Ranger Confidential is the story behind the scenery of the nation's crown jewelsâ??Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smokies, Denali. In these iconic landscapes, where nature and humanity constantly collide, scenery can be as cruel as it is redempti Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)333.78Social sciences Economics Economics of land & energy Land, recreational and wilderness areas, energy Recreational and wilderness areasClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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