The Seasons Of Fire
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The Seasons Of Fire
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Author : David J. Strohmaier
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2021-08-15
The Seasons Of Fire written by David J. Strohmaier and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-15 with Nature categories.
Fire is a fearsome constant in the America West. As the author David J. Strohmaier notes, "Whether we have tended a campfire along Oregon's Deschutes River in March, engaged the advancing front of a Great Basin wildfire in the torrid heat of August, or watched fire settle into the subdued, smoldering leaf piles of October, all of our lives, to one degree or another, are bracketed by fire." In The Seasons of Fire, Strohmaier effectively blends nature writing, personal essay, and philosophical analysis as he deliberately crosses disciplinary boundaries. He discusses the "moral" dimensions of fire—not only whether fires are good, bad, or indifferent phenomena, but also how fire, more generally understood, shapes meaning for human life. The consequences of discussing the moral side of fire speak directly to the contours of the human soul, and to our sense of our place on the land. Strohmaier, a long-term firefighter himself, includes accurate and sometimes gut-wrenching descriptions of the firefighter's experience.
A Season Of Fire
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Author : Doug Gantenbein
language : en
Publisher: Tarcher
Release Date : 2003
A Season Of Fire written by Doug Gantenbein and has been published by Tarcher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
A journalist goes behind-the-scenes to explore the lives of smokejumpers and wilderness firefighters, following the fire season of 2001, during which fires across the West devastated thousands of acres and took the lives of four firefighters.
Seasons Of Fire
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Author : J. DiMarco
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Seasons Of Fire written by J. DiMarco and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Fire Season
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Author : Philip Connors
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-08-19
Fire Season written by Philip Connors and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'I've watched deer and elk frolic in the meadow below me, and pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. If there's a better job anywhere on the planet, I'd like to know what it is.’ 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 remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors’ time up on the peak is filled with drama – there are fires large and small; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, and an abandoned, dying fawn. Filled with Connors’ heartfelt reflections on our place in the wild, Fire Season is an instant modern classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once an homage to the beauty of nature, the blessings of solitude, and the freedom of the independent spirit. Advance praise for Fire Season: ‘A masterwork of close observation, deep reflection, and hard-won wisdom . . . an unforgettable reckoning with the American land’ Philip Gourevitch ‘His adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading’ Walter Kirn
Season Of Fire
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Author : Blue Cove Delawere
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-06
Season Of Fire written by Blue Cove Delawere and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-06 with categories.
Fire Season
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Author : Leyna Krow
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Fire Season written by Leyna Krow and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Fiction categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Devilishly funny and endlessly inventive." —Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins "This story is darkly funny, deliciously devious and hugely inventive, a magical twist on the allure of the American West and who goes there to seek their fortune." —Good Housekeeping, "The 30 Best and Most Anticipated Books of 2022 (So Far)" The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists—a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift—whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West For the citizens of Spokane Falls, the fire of 1889 that destroyed their frontier boomtown was no disaster; it was an opportunity. Barton Heydale, manager of the only bank in Spokane Falls, is on the verge of ending his short, unpopular life. But when his city goes up in flames, he sees an ember of hope shimmering on the horizon, headed right for him. As citizens flock to the bank to cash out insurance policies and take out loans, he realizes he can command the power he craves—and it’s not by following the rules. Here is his reason to live. When Quake Auchenbaucher, a career con man hired to investigate the cause of the fire, arrives in Spokane Falls, he employs his usual shady tactics. But this time, with Washington Territory vying for statehood, the sudden attention to due process jeopardizes Quake’s methods of manipulation. And then there’s Roslyn Beck, whose uncanny ability to see the future has long driven her to drink, and with whom both Barton and Quake have fallen madly and dangerously in love. She is known as a “certain kind of woman,” in possession of unique talents and influence, if only she can find the right ways to wield them. As their paths collide, diverge, and collide again, Barton, Quake, and Roslyn come to terms with their own needs for power, greed, and control, leading one to total ruin, one to heartbreak, and one, ultimately, to redemption. With masterful precision, devious originality, and dark whimsy, Fire Season freshly imagines the greed and misogyny of the American West to tell a rollicking, bewitching story about finding purpose in the face of injustice.
Fire Season
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Author : Jon Loomis
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-07-17
Fire Season written by Jon Loomis and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with Fiction categories.
Beleaguered Police Detective Frank Coffin is on the trail of a firebug in Fire Season, the third in this sharply witty mystery series set in Provincetown, Massachusetts Until a replacement can be found, Frank Coffin is pulling double duty as a detective and interim police chief for the Provincetown, Mass. Police. The off-season has just started for this tourist town and the streets should be quiet. But they're not. When three fires are sparked in quick succession, it looks like there's a firebug on the loose. A firebug who doesn't care who he hurts. With a deputy terrified of UFOs, a severed head in a lobster tank, and the fact that Frank's mother is setting some fires of her own, it's another busy season in P'town in Fire Season, an excellent addition to Jon Loomis' acclaimed series.
Seasoned With Fire
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Author : T. M. Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-07-19
Seasoned With Fire written by T. M. Douglas and has been published by Dorrance Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-19 with Religion categories.
Seasoned with Fire: Being Sensitive to the Shifts of the Seasons in the Spirit came about as T. M. Douglas was trying to figure out why certain experiences in her life were happening. She found her answers in the Word of God, where she read how others in the Bible had experienced the very same things. She found out that just as we have natural seasons, we also experience spiritual seasons. This lead Douglas to delve deeper to discover what these seasons are, how they are defined biblically, and she prayed for discernment to determine these shifts in the seasons in the life of the believer. Douglas came to know that these times that we go through last for only a season. This book is a candid account of her experiences, explaining how others in the Bible have also had wilderness seasons and barren seasons. So when you go through them, you are in good company, knowing that you are not alone and the situation will not last forever. Be patient and know that your faith will carry you through each season you have in your life. About the Author: T. M. Douglas is an author, nurse, and missionary in Buffalo, New York, where she resides with her husband, Reginald, and two beloved dogs, Sasha and Lola. She is the stepmother of four wonderful adults, Shauntel, Alysha, Elizabeth, and Elijah. She attends church at the Chapel and serves with the Shine Middle School Ministry. She also serves annually in Haiti in conjunction with the Chapel and Mission of Hope Haiti. Douglas has served in ministry for almost 20 years in the areas of missions, evangelism, intercession, pastoral care, health ministry, keeping watch discipleship ministry, college ministry, children's ministry, adjutancy/armor bearer ministry, and singles ministry. She has served in missions in St. Vincent and the Grenadine Islands as well as in Haiti.
Autumn Light
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Author : Pico Iyer
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2019-04-16
Autumn Light written by Pico Iyer and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Travel categories.
Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.
Fire On The Rim
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Author : Stephen J. Pyne
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Fire On The Rim written by Stephen J. Pyne and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with Nature categories.
In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.Publishers Weekly