Young Men and Fire
by: Norman Maclean
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634.96180978664
EAN: 9780226500621
ISBN: 0226500624
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 316
Publication Date: November 15, 1993
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Sales Rank: 22757
Studio: University Of Chicago Press
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The NYT A River Runs Through It. In 1949, a crew of U.S. Forest Service Smokejumpers parachuted into a Montana forest fire. In less than an hour, all but three were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for 40 years, Maclean reconstructs the pieces print.
Amazon.com Review:
On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire that raged through Mann Gulch that day was huge--the sort that occurs only every few decades. A battery of paratrooper-firefighters, many of them fresh veterans of World War II, had been anticipating it, and even looking forward to the chance to fight a great fire. Before the day ended thirteen of those smokejumpers lay dead, their charred remains evidence that something had gone terribly wrong. Norman Maclean gives a thorough account of the incident in language not meant for the squeamish: 'Burning to death on a mountainside is dying at least three times ... first, considerably ahead of the fire, you reach the verge of death in your boots and your legs; next, as you fail, you sink back in the region of strange gases and red and blue darts where there is no oxygen and here you die in your lungs; then you sink in prayer into the main fire that consumes.' After August 1949, he notes, the Forest Service came to recognize that not all fires need to be fought and that fire benefits most forest ecosystems.
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- A brilliant book about a legendary forest fireThis is Mr. Maclean's last book and it is a brilliantly written and thoroughly researched, illuminating ... Read More
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- A great storyI loved this book. The detail and analysis resulted from decades of research and Maclean is a terrific ... Read More
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- A Must HaveThis is the quintessential non-fiction account of Mann Gulch. It creates the foundation of our study of ... Read More
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- Young Men and FireThis is a book written about a fire that took place in Montana back in the 1940's during which a group of ... Read More
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- Great bookAny book that I spend a great deal of time checking maps and names, to see who survived, has hooked me. This ... Read More
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