Fire on the Mountain
The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
$53.27
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2009
Summary
In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado’s Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemingly minor human error was merely the first in a string of mistakes that would be compounded into one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of wildland firefighting. Before it was done, fourteen courageous firefighters–men and women, hotshots, smokejumpers, and helicopter crew–would lose their lives battling the deadly, so-called South Canyon blaz…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780061829611 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0061829617 |
| Author: | John N. MacLean |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 131mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
”[Fire on the Mountain] renews our awe of and reverence for fire’s primal, inextinguishable essence, which crosses state lines, lifetimes, and generations.” - New York Times Book Review“Like his father [Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It], Maclean has written a work that will be read and reread for years.” - Denver Post
About The Author
John N. MacLean
John N. Maclean is the author of Home Waters, a memoir of his family’s four-generation connection to Montana’s Blackfoot River, which his father, Norman Maclean, made famous in A River Runs through It. He spent thirty years at the Chicago Tribune, then wrote five nonfiction books about wildland fire that are considered a staple of fire literature. Maclean, an avid fly fisherman, lives in Washington, DC, and at a family cabin in Montana.
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