He lives in New Mexico with his wife and their dog. His essays have appeared in n+1, Harper's, the Paris Review, and the Best American Non-required Reading anthology. Philip Connors has worked as a baker, a bartender, a house painter, a janitor, and an editor at the Wall Street Journal.

An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford's bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers. Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. ' Connors's] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.' ' Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau-and I loved it.' Physical Information: 0.71' H x 5.29' W x 7.98' (0.45 lbs) 272 pagesįeatures: Price on Product, Table of Contents Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Forestry Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Forests & Rainforests WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

Fire Season by Philip Connors