Fire Season
Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Ranked #19 in Forestry, Ranked #63 in Fire — see more rankings.
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' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke.
Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which... more
Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which... more
Rankings by Category
Fire Season is ranked in the following categories:
- #76 in National Parks
- #99 in Nature
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