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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061859370
• ISBN13: 9780061859373
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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.