Isbn: 9780061859366 (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. "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. …

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Like New dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 246 pages. A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Jou rnal 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 ye ar in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tas ks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the countr y and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke. Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which he keeps watch is rugged and roadless?it was the first region in the world to be officially placed off limits to industr ial machines?and it typically gets hit by lightning more than 30,000 times per year. Connors recounts his days and nights in this forbidding land, untethered from the comforts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his glass -walled perch with only his dog Alice for company; occasional visits from smokej umpers and long-distance hikers; the strange dance of communion and wariness wit h bears, elk, and other wild creatures; trips to visit the hidden graves of buff alo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the nineteenth century; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms and untamed fire. Written wit h narrative verve and startling beauty, and filled with reflections on his liter ary forebears who also served as lookouts?among them Edward Abbey, Jack Keroua c, Norman Maclean, and Gary Snyder?Fire Season is a book to stand the t est of time. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.