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Far Flung - Improvisations on National Parks, Driving to Russia, Not Marrying a Ranger, the Language of Heartbreak, and Other Natural Disasters (Paperback)
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Far Flung - Improvisations on National Parks, Driving to Russia, Not Marrying a Ranger, the Language of Heartbreak, and Other Natural Disasters (Paperback)
Series: In Place
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List price R505
Loot Price R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
You Save R69 (14%)
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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 district of Colorado's Rocky
Mountain National Park. There, Kircher encountered wonder and
beauty, accidents and death. Although she always suspected the
mountains might captivate her, she didn't realize that her adopted
landscape would give her strength to confront where she was
from-both the Midwest that Willa Cather fans will recognize, and a
childhood filled with problems and secrets. Divided and defined by
geographic and psychological space, Far Flung begins in the Rockies
but broadens its focus as Kircher negotiates places as distant as
Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Russia's Siberian valleys, and
Wisconsin's lake country, always with Colorado as a heartfelt
pivot. These thirteen essays depict a woman coming to terms with
her adoration for the wilds of the West and will resonate with all
of us longing to better understand ourselves and our relationships
to the places and people we love most.
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