“This powerful work belongs with the classics of the nature writing genre and is equally important as a rumination on living and dying. Connorss adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading. Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season.

“A heartfelt, well-written volume of vignettes and reflections of a man who-much like his long lineage of fire lookout forebears-gladly chooses to escape civilization for the natural word.” Fire Season Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors available in Trade Paperback on. Connors channels their voices in a praise song of great urgency and makes a plea to save a vital piece of our natural and cultural heritage: the wild Gila River, whose waters are threatened by a potential dam. A Song for the River, its sequel, updates and deepens the story: the mountain he loves goes up in flames a lookout on another mountain whom he has come to love as brother dies in a freak accident and three high school students he admires die tragically in an airplane crash while researching the wilderness and the wild river they wish to save. His first book, Fire Season (30,000 sold), recounted the deep lessons learned about mountains, wilderness, fire, and solitude. Every summer since 2002, Connors has been perched in a tower 50 feet above the Gila Wilderness, watching for fire. The Gila River and Wilderness are the heart and soul of A Song for the River. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout: Connors, Philip: 9780061859366: : Books Books Science & Math Nature & Ecology Buy new: 20.24 24.

Fire Season by Philip Connors