Stephen Amidon
Heat of the Moment
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
By Philip Connors
Macmillan 288pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
‘The life of the lookout’, Philip Connors writes in his account of a season as a fire spotter in New Mexico, ‘is a blend of monotony, geometry, and poetry.’ This proves an apt description of Fire Season as well, which features acute observations of nature and a fascinating history of North American wildfires, but is also lumbered with a meandering personal narrative.
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