The Fire Watcher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fire Watcher write by Chip Hill. This book was released on 2010-07. The Fire Watcher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Read the story of Jake Adams, a janitor at a decommissioned nuclear power plant, who is one day forced to confront the mistakes of his past and embark on an emotional and spiritual journey that will take him to the edge of insanity and back.
Fire Watch
Fire Watch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire Watch write by Connie Willis. This book was released on 2010-01-13. Fire Watch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time. Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction. Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories, including double award-winner "Fire Watch," set in the universe of Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, in which a time-traveling student learns one of history's hardest lessons. In "A Letter from the Clearys," a routine message from distant friends shatters the fragile world of a beleaguered family. In "The Sidon in the Mirror," a mutant with the unconscious urge to become other people finds himself becoming both killer and victim. Disturbing, revealing, and provocative, this remarkable collection of short fiction brings together some of the best work of an incomparable writer whose ability to amaze, confound, and enlighten never fails.
Fire Season
Fire Season - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire Season write by Philip Connors. This book was released on 2011-04-05. Fire Season available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.” —J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar “[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.” —Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. 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.
A Handbook for Fire Watchers
A Handbook for Fire Watchers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Handbook for Fire Watchers write by United States. Office of Civilian Defense. This book was released on 1942. A Handbook for Fire Watchers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lookout
Lookout - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lookout write by Trina Moyles. This book was released on 2021-03-30. Lookout available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north. While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. "I could never do it," she told herself. Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she left northern Alberta to pursue a decade-long career in global humanitarian work. After three years in East Africa, and newly engaged, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to sponsor her fiance, Akello's, immigration to Canada. Despite her fear of being alone in the woods, she applied for a seasonal lookout position and got the job. Thus begins Trina's first summer as one of a handful of lookouts scattered throughout Alberta, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled "a domesticated wolf" by her former owners--to keep her company. While searching for smoke, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship--and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. Through megafires, lightning storms, and stunning encounters with wildlife, she learns to survive at the fire tower by forging deep connections with nature and with an extraordinary community of people dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. In isolation, she discovers a kind of self-awareness--and freedom--that only solitude can deliver. Lookout is a riveting story of loss, transformation, and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the destructive and regenerative power of wildfire in our northern forests.
