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)

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 88%
informative 55%
adventurous 50%
inspiring 33%
relaxing 27%
emotional 16%
hopeful 16%
challenging 11%
funny 11%
lighthearted 11%
sad 11%

Pace

slow 64%
medium 35%

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