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Publisher: Stackpole BooksISBN-10: 0811707385
Subject: Science & TechnologyISBN-13: 9780811707381
Topic: --Format: Hardcover
Language: EnglishPublication Year: 1996
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Editor:Jackie Johnson Maughan

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Height:9.3 in.
Width:6.3 in.
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Weight:18.4 oz.

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What compels a person to take a job as a fire lookout, spending months alone in a tiny tower overlooking a vast stretch of wilderness? What do lookouts do on the job? How do they pass the time? What do they see, think, and feel? Why does the experience so often touch lookouts in ways they can never forget?In this collection of stories, essays, and journal entries, nineteen fire lookouts answer these question with writings that are funny, poisganant, thoughtful, and dramatic. Included is the work of established writers whose lookout experience offered a wellspring of inspiration and veteran lookouts whose occupation gave them great stories to tell.

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As the Western wilderness has shrunk, so has the number of fire watchers: Maughan, who teaches English at Idaho State, reports that they numbered 6000 in the 1950s and are now down to 600. In this collection of 29 essays and stories by 19 authors, it becomes clear that fire watching is not a job for the gregarious, because it can impose weeks of isolation and demands constant vigilance. While bears and rattlesnakes are possible sources of trouble, the greatest threat comes from lightning, which causes 90% of all forest fires. There are several fascinating accounts here of watchers riding out storms in their metal cabins placed at high elevations making them perfect targets for lightning bolts. No one would take such a post who did not love nature, but it may come as a surprise that women constitute a large percentage of the watchers. Thoreauvian types should love this. (Feb.)
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These 29 essays written by authors, teachers, and environmentalists form a kind of community -- that of the fire lookout. Their writing reflects a diversity of experience and some common threads: chosen isolation, silence, natural beauty and power, a sense of the spiritual, and also a profound sense of the self. Each author describes personal involvement with each of these commonalities, sometimes with humor, and sometimes with the emotion born out of loneliness. Their occupation gave them good stories to tell, and this collection is a rewarding and finely authored compilation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0811707385
Title : Go Tell It on the Mountain
EAN : 9780811707381
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Publication Date : 1996-02
Pages : 224
List Price (MSRP) : 22.95
Height : 0.9600 inches
Width : 6.2400 inches
Length : 9.2700 inches
Weight : 1.1500 pounds
Keywords : Rural Life, Nature Writing, General AAS, General, General & Reference, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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