Fire Season

Philip Connors left a job at the Wall Street Journal ten years ago to work atop a fire lookout tower in the remote Gila National Forest in western New Mexico. He never looked back. Working in the tower for five months out of the year, scanning the horizon for the first smolder of a fire, and hiking, camping, eating, drinking alone for the most part, is Connors' perfect job.

This book is Connors' story of his day-to-day life during a season in the wilderness lookout.