Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
10 best books like Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks (Andrea Lankford): Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Memoirs of a Sword Swallower, In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley, The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm, Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide, Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra, Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
| Author | Michael P. Ghiglieri |
Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders. Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the first complete and comprehensive history of Canyon misadventures. These episodes span the entire era of visitation from the time...
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
| Author | Dayton Duncan |
| ISBN | 0307268969 |
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved,...
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower
| Author | Daniel P. Mannix |
| ISBN | 0965046958 |
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower is Daniel P. Mannix's autobiography as a sword-swallower with a traveling sideshow, illustrated with photos from the 30s and 40s taken by the author. An example of Classic Americana, this book offers a portrayal of a vanished world of working-class performance artists...
In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley
| Author | Jonathan Waterman |
| ISBN | 1558217266 |
The author does a phenomenal job at capturing his and other climbers' experiences on a tireless mountain. He recognizes the trauma that it has left in the minds of those who have come face to face with death on the mountain. Waterman will pull you into the heart of Alaska with this recount of experiences....
The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm
| Author | Matt Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0812933400 |
I guess I keep looking for another Into Thin Air. I remember the experience of reading it for the first time, of literally being unable to put it down, ignoring a large pile of end of term marking and staying up all night. The natural human drama combines with Krakauer's storytelling to form a masterpiece....
Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide
Jill is an unassuming recreational cyclist who has about as much in common with Lance Armstrong as she does with Michael Jordan. But despite her perceived athletic mediocrity, the newspaper editor from Alaska harbors an outlandish ambition: the "world's toughest mountain bike race," a 2,740-mile...
| Author | Jordan Fisher Smith |
| ISBN | 0618711953 |
A nature book unlike any other, 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...
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
| Author | Caroline Burau |
| ISBN | 0873515692 |
You answer a call from a fourteen-year-old boy asking for someone to arrest his mother, who is smoking crack in their bathroom. You talk with him until the cops arrive, making sure there are no weapons around and learning that his favorite subject in school is lunch. Five minutes later, you have to deal...
| Author | Mireya Mayor |
| ISBN | 1426207212 |
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
| Author | Miranda Weiss |
| ISBN | 0061710253 |
Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice's mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundaries—between community and isolation, bounty and deprivation,...
| Author | Cary Griffith |
| ISBN | 0873515897 |
In the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death. On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leading a trip deep into Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park. He stepped into a gap among cedar trees to...
| Author | Rita Golden Gelman |
| ISBN | 0307588017 |
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has...
| Author | Jim Davidson |
| ISBN | 0345523199 |
“My eyes travel up the frozen walls. I figure it is eighty feet up to the sunlight. The walls above me climb up at about eighty degrees, then they go dead vertical, and then, higher up, they overhang. It is as if I am looking out from the belly of a beast, its jagged white teeth interlocking above me.”
In...
| Author | Anne LaBastille |
| ISBN | 0393320596 |
Anne LaBastille found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake. But as the years passed, the outside world intruded in various ways: curious fans, after reading her best-selling book Woodswoman, tracked her down; land developers arrived; there was air and noise pollution...
Finding Everett Ruess
by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large...
| Author | Pete Fromm |
| ISBN | 0312422725 |
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States
| Author | National Geographic Society |
| ISBN | 0792253221 |
Featuring 80 all new maps and more than 350 photos, this guide is the most comprhensive, up—to—the—minute book of its kind on the market today. A perennial editions, it reflects National Geographic's century—long association with America's national parks system and its peerless reputation...
Hey Ranger! True Tales of Humor & Misadventure from America's National Parks
| Author | Jim Burnett |
| ISBN | 1589791916 |
So disappointed! The premise for this book, tales of a national park ranger, held the promise for a fun and entertaining read, but its abysmal. The setup for each story feel arduous and the punchline/resolution to each just doesn't feel worth the effort. Most grating are the folksy acronyms used to describe...
| Author | Reader's Digest Association |
| ISBN | 0762104244 |
Off the Beaten Path – Newly Revised & Updated: A Travel Guide to More Than 1000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting ( ISBN: 978-0762107940, Reader’s Digest) by the Editors of Reader’s Digest is a visual vacation all by itself. This gorgeous illustrated guide to some...
Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places
| Author | Ansel Adams |
| ISBN | 0316078468 |
With more than two hundred photographs - many rarely seen and some never before published - this is the most comprehensive collection of Ansel Adams' photographs of America's national parks and wilderness areas. For many people, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, and other iconic American...
Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead
| Author | Peter Manseau |
| ISBN | 0805086528 |
By examining relics—the bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditions—Peter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel and the author’s own deep curiosity, filled with true tales of the living and...
Death & Survival in Glacier National Park: True Tales of Tragedy, Courage, & Misadventure
| Author | C.W. Guthrie |
| ISBN | 1560376589 |
Sheer cliffs, avalanches, turbulent rivers, cold lakes, severe weather, grizzly bears - these are just a few of the ways you can die while visiting Glacier National Park. Since 1910 when the park was established, 296 people have perished within Glacier's boundaries, and many more somehow survived...
Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
| Author | Lee H. Whittlesey |
| ISBN | 1570980217 |
this book has a fantastic title. i love the word-choice of "foolhardiness", and i thought i would really enjoy reading a book about people doing stupid things and paying for them with their liiiiives. which i think makes me a bad person, but since a lot of these deaths take place in the 1800's, there is enough...
Bomb Hunters: Life and Death Stories with Britain's Elite Bomb Disposal Unit in Afghanistan
How do they do it? How do 18 year old boys/men go out into Sangin, Afghanistan, day after day knowing that there's every possibility that they are about to step on a pressure plate and die, or see mates and team members die, in most horrible ways? How do they do this and still stay sane?
I read quite a bit...
