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(). Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout Audio CD – Unabridged, April 5, by. Philip Connors (Author) › Visit Amazon's Philip Connors Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more/5(). · 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 www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.
A blend of memoir, history, travelogue, and nature writing, American essayist and author Philip Connors's Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout () documents Connors' time spent in a remote fire lookout in the mountains of New Mexico and the unlikely journey that led him www.doorway.ru Season received a nomination for the Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Best Travel. 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. "Philip Connors's remarkable account of his seasons as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico is enlightening and well-informed. The surprise in the book is the author's willingness—his courage, actually—to examine his own naïveté about the natural world.
A Man and His Dog in Fire Country "Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout" by Philip Connors is one of those relaxing airplane ride books or winter fireside reads that really lets you understand how being on a fire watchtower, miles from anyone else could be both exciting and soul refreshing. Solitude is something that many of us don’t get enough of anymore. 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. Like. “By being virtually useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.”. ― Philip Connors, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. 1 likes. Like. “That thing some people call boredom, in the correct if elusive dosage, can be a form of inoculation against itself.
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