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Ranger Confidential
- Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
- Narrated by: Julia Motyka
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks.
For 12 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 jewels - 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 redemptive.
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- Victory D
- 20-05-23
Outstanding story with a bittersweet perspective
This is why you pay tax. You want nurses to nurse your wounds? You want teachers to teach your kids? You want rangers to save your ass? You need to pay your taxes. These people can't live on hugs and frickin prayers. PS, considered joining NPS after retiring from 25 years military... read this and thought "No frickin way." I've done my time
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- Anonymous User
- 11-09-23
One of the best
I loved this book. The author does an amazing job describing the iconic scenery of the USA national parks, despite never going to any of them she makes it so easy to be there with the rangers. By the end of the book it feels like you've really gotten to know herself and her colleagues. The narrator was great; would definitely recommend giving it a listen as you won't regret it.
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