Far Flung : Improvisations on National Parks, Driving to Russia, Not Marrying a Ranger, the Language of Heartbreak, and Other Natural Disasters

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"Cassandra Kircher was in her twenties when she was hired by the National Park Service, landing a life that allowed her to reinvent herself. For four years she collected entrance fees and worked in the dispatch office before being assigned as the first woman to patrol an isolated backcountry di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kircher, Cassandra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : West Virginia University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kircher, Cassandra.
United States. > National Park Service.
United States. > National Park Service > Officials and employees > Biography.
Park rangers.
Employees.
Gardiens de parc > Colorado > Rocky Mountain National Park > Biographies.
Park rangers > Colorado > Rocky Mountain National Park > Biography.
Colorado > Rocky Mountain National Park.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; I. NEAR; A Portrait of My Father in Three Places; Someone Else Dies; There's an Old Dump Below Lawn Lake; Backcountry Trash (and Other Important Considerations); Over Mummy Pass; When I Leave; Going to Die; II. FAR; On Not Marrying a Ranger; No More to the Lake; Driving to Russia; My Father and I Take a Vacation; Oxford Through the Looking Glass; Visiting the Iditarod Champ; Notes

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