Ebook {Epub PDF} Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

Fire Season: Field notes from a wilderness lookout The book arrived with the usual fast Amazon delivery service, via DPD UK, a very precise and informative carrier. The book was an excellent read, and well worth the price. For lovers of the outdoors and nature, a must have/5(). 8 rows ·  · Philip Connors’s remarkable account of his seasons as a fire lookout in the Gila National Brand: HarperCollins Publishers.  · But this is no Year of Living Loftily. Connors draws deeply from the well of field notes he patiently collected, like rain in his lookout’s cistern, over the course of eight bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Set in the Gila Wilderness, this book seemed to be an appropriate read while I was on the road for my November adventure in New Mexico and Arizona. Connors, a copy editor for the Wall Street Journal, leaves his existence of a concrete city. Fire Season: Field notes from a wilderness lookout by Philip Connors Book The poetic, thoroughly researched, thrilling account of [Connors'] job as a fire lookout [I]lluminates the joys of solitude and the complicated nature of life in a volatile, untamable environment., [R]eading this book is like taking a vacation in beautiful. audiobook (Unabridged) mid; Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout By Philip Connors. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a seven-by-seven foot fire-lookout tower, ten thousand feet above sea level in one of the most remote territories of New Mexico. and a sense of history, Fire.

Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. 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, feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the. For a decade Philip Connors has spent nearly half of each year in a 7' x 7' fire lookout tower, 10, feet above sea level, keeping watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in America. Fire Season is his remarkable reflection on work, untamed fire, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. But this is no Year of Living Loftily. Connors draws deeply from the well of field notes he patiently collected, like rain in his lookout’s cistern, over the course of eight summers.