Sara Maitland

Human smoke alarm

For five months of the year Philip Connors (once an editor at the Wall Street Journal) has a fascinating job: he is a firewatcher in the vast Gila National Forest in New Mexico, USA.

issue 10 September 2011

  • Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

    Philip Connors

    Macmillan, pp. 246

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