Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

By Philip Connors

Book Overview

" 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. 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061859362
• ISBN13: 9780061859366
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Ecco
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent - A Hidden Gem of a Book

I'm just so pleased this recommendation came up, as I had never heard of Philip Connors. This is a nonfiction account of the author's time spent as a fire lookout in a SouthWest US wilderness area. But that's just a sliver of what this book is about. He weaves history with loneliness, honesty with ecology, & provokes the reader to challenge what is believed to be "known" about some of our current policies surrounding nature and our relationship to her.