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

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

Philip Connors

246 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction memoir nature informative reflective slow-paced

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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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Moods

reflective 92%
adventurous 61%
informative 53%
inspiring 30%
relaxing 30%
emotional 7%
hopeful 7%
lighthearted 7%

Pace

slow 75%
medium 25%

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3.8

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