Books with author Renée Frances

The deep redwood canyons and broad grassy ridges of the Santa Cruz Mountains offer a leafy green balm to the nature-starved psyches of cubicle dwellers in nearby San Jose. But a few lucky souls, the rangers, actually get paid to spend their days--their lives--patrolling this last wooded scrap, this island of primeval California. Frances Reneau was determined to join their ranks despite her age and her total lack of previous law-enforcement experience. Her journals from her first decade, on which this book is based, deliver vivid pathos and passion while describing her encounters with parkland denizens--injured wildlife, lost visitors, angry neighbors and ancient redwoods. Unseen and unheard by many visitors, exciting dramas unfold punctuating her long, peaceful, placid days on solo patrol. Welcome to life in green pants!

The deep redwood canyons and broad grassy ridges of the Santa Cruz Mountains offer a leafy green balm to the nature-starved psyches of cubicle dwellers in nearby San Jose. But a few lucky souls, the rangers, actually get paid to spend their days--their lives--patrolling this last wooded scrap, this island of primeval California. Frances Reneau was determined to join their ranks despite her age and her total lack of previous law-enforcement experience. Her journals from her first decade, on which this book is based, deliver vivid pathos and passion while describing her encounters with parkland denizens--injured wildlife, lost visitors, angry neighbors and ancient redwoods. Unseen and unheard by many visitors, exciting dramas unfold punctuating her long, peaceful, placid days on solo patrol. Welcome to life in green pants!

Excerpt from Dogs and PuppiesNow, children, said Gypsy, an old mother Boston Terrier, I must begin to teach you some manners, for you will soon have to leave your old mother, and go out into the world and look after yourselves. I heard your master say that Mrs. Updike was coming to look at you this afternoon, and that she would give a hundred and twenty-five dollars for the puppy that suited her, if he could show the pedigree papers and they were satisfactory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Dogs and PuppiesNow, children, said Gypsy, an old mother Boston Terrier, I must begin to teach you some manners, for you will soon have to leave your old mother, and go out into the world and look after yourselves. I heard your master say that Mrs. Updike was coming to look at you this afternoon, and that she would give a hundred and twenty-five dollars for the puppy that suited her, if he could show the pedigree papers and they were satisfactory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.