Fire Season
Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 28, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- A fire lookout’s days and nights open onto the absorbing rhythms of wilderness life.
- Themes
- Wilderness lookout life, Solitude, Nature writing
- Genres
- Naturalists' Lives, Conservation, Wilderness & Wild Places
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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.” —J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar “[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.” —Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic.
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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.
Solitude, in View
A fire lookout’s days and nights open onto the absorbing rhythms of wilderness life.
Come here for
- Immersive nature writing from a wilderness lookout
- The quiet pull of solitude in the American West
Expect
- A chronicle shaped by days and nights on watch
- Rugged, soulful attention to the natural world
Where it sits
| Naturalists' Lives | 38% |
|---|---|
| Wilderness & Wild Places | 26% |
| Conservation | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Naturalists' Lives
- World History
- The Americas History
- Animals
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- Ecology
- Forests & Rainforests
- Nature Writing
- Wilderness & Wild Places
- Authors
- Philip Connors
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 28, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wilderness lookout life · Solitude · Nature writing
- Reading lane
- Naturalists' Lives