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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061859370
• ISBN13: 9780061859373
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 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.