Connors records the day-to-day of one typical season (the book is organized like a journal, chapters headed April through August), remembers past summers and muses on nature and solitude, weaving in a surprisingly thorough discussion of conservation thought in America.Ĭonnors will be touring the West Coast for his book from April 11 to April 14. His only companions (apart from the musk deer and the occasional long-distance hiker) are literary - Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey, Norman Maclean - all of them veterans of lookoutry. He hikes, fishes, throws a Frisbee around with his faithful dog, plays endless games of cribbage. During fire season, Connors spends his nights in a Forest Service cabin and his days in a seven-by-seven-foot box atop a steel tower. Fire Season, a first book from Philip Connors, is a memoir of the author’s summers as a fire lookout in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest.
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