5/24/2023 0 Comments Fire Season by Philip Connors![]() ![]() However, he quickly learns fire lookouts are still very much a thing-and a very important thing, at that. Initially, Connors thinks fire lookouts are a thing of the past, a throwback to an earlier era in American Western culture when cowboys roamed the untamed land and ramshackle towns dotted the sparse landscape. ![]() ![]() In keeping with the title, Connors separates the book into five chapters, one for each month between April and August-otherwise known as fire season. Fire Season received a nomination for the Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Best Travel & Outdoor Book. A blend of memoir, history, travelogue, and nature writing, American essayist and author Philip Connors’s Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (2011) documents Connors' time spent in a remote fire lookout in the mountains of New Mexico and the unlikely journey that led him there. ![]()
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