o turn the last page of Fire Season is to emerge from a journey that enlightens and leaves the reader hungry for more., An excellent book, an entertaining read, and a lot of food for thought. His is a most welcome new voice.�, ife with breathtaking moments. The surprise in the book is the author’s willingness—his courage, actually—to examine his own naïveté about the natural world.
proves a nifty way to shake off the last of winter's cold., “Philip Connors’s remarkable account of his seasons as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico is enlightening and well-informed. For a man so drawn to solitude, Connors has a particular knack for writing characters. Connors' prose is so mesmerizing, so enthralling, that even the most committed city dweller will be tempted to head for a remote, quiet destination., fascinating, pyro-charged reflection.
Find room on your bookshelf next to Wallace Stegner and Norman Maclean Philip Connors is here to stay., This is a book for all nature lovers, and more importantly, those who fail to see the beauty of the natural world. So relax and enjoy., FIRE SEASON is an urgent, clear, bright book it is both lyrical enough to arrest breath and absolutely compelling, reminding us why we need fire, solitude, wilderness. lluminates the joys of solitude and the complicated nature of life in a volatile, untamable environment., eading this book is like taking a vacation in beautiful scenery with an observant and clever guide.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Poetic, thoroughly researched, thrilling account of job as a fire lookout. an unforgettable reckoning with the American land' Philip Gourevitch `His adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading' Walter Kirn Advance praise for Fire Season: `A masterwork of close observation, deep reflection, and hard-won wisdom. Filled with Connors' heartfelt reflections on our place in the wild, Fire Season is an instant modern classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once an homage to the beauty of nature, the blessings of solitude, and the freedom of the independent spirit. Connors' time up on the peak is filled with drama - there are fires large and small spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening above the clouds surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, and an abandoned, dying fawn. 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. If there's a better job anywhere on the planet, I'd like to know what it is.' 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. 'I've watched deer and elk frolic in the meadow below me, and pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke.
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