Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156013970ISBN-10:156013975UPC:9780156013970Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, NatureBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Natural Disasters, PlantsBook Topic:TreesSize:7.98 x 5.33 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCFFE36RC5
Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
During one incendiary summer, Murry Taylor kept an extensive journal of his day-to-day activities as an Alaskan smokejumper. It wasn't his first season fighting wildfires, and he's far from being a rookie--he's been on the job since 1965. Through this narrative of one busy season, Taylor reflects on the years of training, the harrowing adrenaline-fueled jumps, his brushes with death, the fires he...
Series: Harvest Book
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156013970ISBN-10:156013975UPC:9780156013970Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, NatureBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Natural Disasters, PlantsBook Topic:TreesSize:7.98 x 5.33 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCFFE36RC5
Taylor, Murry a.: - 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.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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