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...
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Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire by Taylor, Murry a.

Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire

BD$39.99

Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire

BD$39.99
Author: Murry a. Taylor
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 conquered, and the ones that got away. It's a world full of bravado, one with epic battles of man versus nature, resulting in stories of death-defying defeats, serious injury, and occasionally tragedy. We witness Taylor's story; learn of the training, preparation, technology, and latest equipment used in fighting wildfires; and get to know his fellow smokejumpers in the ready room, on the tundra, and in the vast forests of one of the last great wilderness areas in the world. Often thrilling and informative and always entertaining, Taylor's memoir is one of the first autobiographical accounts of a legendary career.



Author: Murry a. Taylor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 06/14/2001
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.33w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780156013970


Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 12/20/2001 pg. 86

About the Author
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.

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