Fire season field notes from a wilderness lookout
Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Ecco,
2012.
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| Edition: | First Ecco paperback edition |
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| Summary: | Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford's bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers. |
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| Item Description: | Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover |
| Physical Description: | 246, 13 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246). |
| ISBN: | 9780061859373 0061859370 |
