Fire Season

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`I`ve watched deer & elk frolic in the meadow below me, & pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. 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. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder & grandeur of this most unusual job & place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude & the majesty, might & beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors` time up on the peak is filled with drama -- there are fires large & small; spectacular midnight lightning storms & silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, & an abandoned, dying fawn. 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, & the freedom of the independent spirit. Advance praise for Fire Season: `A masterwork of close observation, deep reflection, & hard-won wisdom.. .an unforgettable reckoning with the American land` Philip Gourevitch ` His adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading` Walter Kirn