Download Audiobook Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks by Andrea Lankford in English

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The true tales behind the surroundings of America’s nationwide parks. For 12 years, Andrea Lankford lived within the greatest, most spectacular nationwide parks on this planet, working a job she liked. She chaperoned child sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued dangerous guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters sure for the center of the Grand Canyon. She received arguments with bears. She slept with just a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the perfect job on this planet! Luckily, Andrea survived it. On this graphic and but surprisingly humorous account of her and others’ extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world through which park rangers wrestle to take care of their idealism within the face of loss of life, disillusionment, and the lack of a comrade killed whereas holding that skinny inexperienced line between defending the park from the individuals, the individuals from the park, and the individuals from one another. Ranger Confidential is the story behind the surroundings of the nation’s crown jewels – Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Nice Smokies, Denali. In these iconic landscapes, the place nature and humanity continuously collide, surroundings could be as merciless as it’s redemptive.