Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (Audio)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441782113 (1441782117)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 5
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Biography Memoir,
Western
Philip Connors shares with us his eighth season as a fire lookout on top of a mountain in the Gila National Forrest. It takes a couple of miles hiking uphill from the nearest road to reach his summer workplace. He works ten days in a row and then has four days off to reconnect with civilization for ...
Book of the Week blurb - Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with drama - there are fires large and small; sp...
Went through this book quickly. Very romantic (to me) idea of working in a isolated fire tower for the summer season of fire watching. Connors writes of his own experiences (he's done it for 8 years) and adds information about the Forest Service's policies on fires over the years and interesting bit...
Philip Connors tried his hand at a number of jobs and did pretty well. But his true love was the outdoors, particularly the remote outdoors. So, when an opportunity presented itself for him to spend half a year in a fire tower in remotest New Mexico, he dropped his reportorial gig at the Wall Street...
Part of my wilderness memoir reading binge, Fire Season hits a good medium between personal experience (the author spots fires in the New Mexico wilderness for years on end) and history (describing the fire suppression techniques of the US Forest Service over the past century). There is detail about...
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