Stephen J. Pyne

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Story of the Great Fires of 1910

"1910 was America's millennial year of fire. That summer, American nature and American society collided with tectonic force as western wildfires scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice of Greenland. Farms, mining camps, and rail towns cracked and burned. A survivor said that the towering flames raged with the sound of a thousand trains rushing over a thousand steel trestles. As one ranger put it, the mountains roared." "Stephen Pyne explains how wildland fires happen and how they are fought, how forests are created then re-created in cycles of burning, and what happens to a landscape when roads, railways, mining camps, logging, and national parks appear. The action distills into a two-day crisis, the Big Blowup of August 20-21, when the fires tripled in size, and focuses in particular on the heroics of Ranger Ed Pulaski, who held his panicked crew at gunpoint in a mine tunnel while the firestorm raged outside." "Pyne brings that year to life through the experiences and words of the rangers, soldiers, politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, and civilians who faced the fires, fought the flames, and were forever scarred by them. It was the first and greatest test of the five-year-old Forest Service. Yet even as seventy-eight fire-fighters perished, a national debate raged about policy, and especially about the relative merits of firefighting versus fire lighting."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Year of the Fires

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A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon

Describing his experiences as part of a seasonal forest fire crew, the author reveals the drama of the headline-making 1988 North Rim fire

Fire on the Rim

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Rebecca A. Senf

Mark Klett

Byron Wolfe

2012 Phoenix Art Museum, University of California Press. The book is nearly perfect. Only minor edge wear and blemishes on the cover. No annotations or underlines/highlights.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Mexico

The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

Published in association with Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Creative Photography.

Reconstructing the View

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Reconstructing the View