Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire - Couverture souple

Taylor, Murry A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156013975 ISBN 13 : 9780156013970

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2001

Synopsis

Fighting fires since 1965, veteran smokejumper Murry Taylor finally retired from his legendary career after last summer-the worst fire season in more than fifty years. After three decades of parachuting out of planes and battling blazes in the vast, rugged wilderness of Alaska and the West, Taylor recounts in Jumping Fire, with passion and honesty, stories of man versus nature at its most furious and unforgiving. He shares what it's like to hear the deafening roar, to smell the acrid burn, to feel the intense heat, to breathe the thick fumes, and to finally run for your life with exploding flames two hundred feet high and a mile wide licking at your heels.
Written with a keen eye for detail and a talent for storytelling, "Jumping Fire is a tale of love and loss, life and death, and sheer hard work, set in an unforgiving and unforgettable landscape, that's second only to Norman Maclean's classic Young Men and Fire" (Publishers Weekly).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Murry A. Taylor was a smokejumper on and off for more than thirty years. He was the oldest active smokejumper at the time of his retirement in 2000, and the oldest ever to do the job. He lives in northern California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156013975
• ISBN 13: 9780156013970
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 480
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