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A carregar... Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookoutpor Philip Connors
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Predivno. ( ) This was an excellent read. The author is bright, lively, and engaging in his style. I admit to being fond of the general topic having studied fire use and ecology in relation to my degrees. He cites several well known authors in the genre and talks about where he is and what might happen. In case you are squeamish he does not get graphic with the events of the past, nor of the present - he does describe them sufficiently to give a good overview and leave the reader to locate more books or information on the topics if desired. Philip Connors discusses life as a fire lookout in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. The book is organized to follow the chronology of a fire season in New Mexico; we follow Connors from his arrival at the Apache Peak lookout station in his fifth(ish) year on the job through his departure at the end of fire season. Along the way, Connors discusses various parts of his life and his philosophy about the wilderness. I definitely enjoyed this, which I listened to as an audiobook while riding my bike. It's really meditative and winding -- we cover a wide range of topics (from Connors' boyhood on a Midwestern farm, to his experiences while living in New York during 9/11, to Jack Kerouac's time as a lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascades), not always in a particularly straightforward path. For the most part, it wasn't too repetitive, and I think it fits well into the Edward Abbey-style tradition of nature writing. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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The author discusses his time spent ten thousand feet above ground as a fire lookout in a remote part of New Mexico, a job where he witnessed some of the most amazing phenomena nature has to offer. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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