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Fire season

For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder and grandeur of his work, FIRE SEASON evokes the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire. Connors' time up on the peak is filled with drama - fires; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings, awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, and an abandoned, dying fawn.

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  • "For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder and grandeur of his work, FIRE SEASON evokes the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire. Connors' time up on the peak is filled with drama - fires; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings, awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, and an abandoned, dying fawn."
  • "For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder and grandeur of his work, FIRE SEASON evokes the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire. Connors' time up on the peak is filled with drama - fires; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings, awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, and an abandoned, dying fawn."@en
  • "The author discusses his time spent ten thousand feet above ground as a fire lookout in a remote part of New Mexico, a job where he witnessed some of the most amazing phenomena nature has to offer."@en
  • ""For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder and grandeur of his work, Fire season evokes the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire. Connors' time up on the peak is filled with drama - fires; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings, awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, and an abandoned, dying fawn." --Publisher description."@en
  • "The author discusses his time spent ten thousand feet above ground as a fire lookout in a remote part of New Mexico, a job where he witnessed some of the most amazing phenomena nature has to offer"
  • "A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke.Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which he keeps watch is rugged and roadless?it was the first region in the world to be officially placed off limits to industrial machines?and it typically gets hit by lightning more than 30,000 times per year. Connors recounts his days and nights in this forbidding land, untethered from the comforts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his glass-walled perch with only his dog Alice for company; occasional visits from smokejumpers and long-distance hikers; the strange dance of communion and wariness with bears, elk, and other wild creatures; trips to visit the hidden graves of buffalo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the nineteenth century; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms and untamed fire. Written with narrative verve and startling beauty, and filled with reflections on his literary forebears who also served as lookouts?among them Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, Norman Maclean, and Gary Snyder?Fire Season is a book to stand the test of time."@en
  • "Een dertiger heeft in de winter een normale job maar tijdens de zomer betrekt hij een piepkleine uitkijktoren in een van de meest onherbergzame natuurgebieden in het zuiden van de VS."
  • "For nearly a decade, Connors has spent half of each year in a fire lookout tower, 10,000-feet above the ground in one of the remotest territories of New Mexico. "Fire Season" captures the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place."@en

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  • "Anecdotes"
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  • "Large type books"
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  • "Natural history literature"
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  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"

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  • "Fire season [text (large print)]"
  • "Fire season"
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  • "Fire season : field notes from a wilderness lookout"@en
  • "Fire season : field notes from a wilderness lookout"
  • "Fire season field notes from a wilderness lookout"@en
  • "Fire Season : Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout"

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