Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

Philip Connors

256 pages first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir nature informative reflective slow-paced

Description

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' to...

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reflective 86%
informative 59%
adventurous 54%
inspiring 31%
relaxing 27%
emotional 22%
hopeful 18%
funny 13%
lighthearted 13%
challenging 9%
sad 9%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 33%

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