Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
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"Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau--and I loved it." " Connors's] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading." Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become...
--J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar
--Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0061859370
ISBN13:9780061859373
Release Date:February 2012
Publisher:Ecco Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.49 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Excellent - A Hidden Gem of a Book
Published by SkaBamm , 1 year ago
I'm just so pleased this recommendation came up, as I had never heard of Philip Connors.
This is a nonfiction account of the author's time spent as a fire lookout in a SouthWest US wilderness area. But that's just a sliver of what this book is about. He weaves history with loneliness, honesty with ecology, & provokes the reader to challenge what is believed to be "known" about some of our current policies surrounding nature and our relationship to her.
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