Philip Connors
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season--a story of calamity and resilience in the world's first Wilderness. A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness to the blaze he had always feared: a megafire that forced him off his mountain by helicopter, and forever changed the forest and watershed he loved. It was one of many...