Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors (Paperback)

Fire Season is Philip Connors's memoir of the seasons he spent as a fire lookout high in a tower in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico. Watching for smoke in near total solitude, he reflects on wilderness, wildfire, history and the value of being alone in nature. Thoughtful and beautifully observed, it is a celebrated work of nature writing. Paperback from Ecco.