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Download or read book Rippling Wildfire written by Will Lynch and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rippling Wildfire: A Poetry Inferno Poetry Uncovers Life Volume 1 By: Will Lynch Finding one’s own voice can be difficult to uncover, and an outlet to view as a method of understanding can give peace to a lonely soul. The first in a series, Rippling Wildfire: A Poetry Inferno is about deep, visceral emotion and the impact it has on our perspective of the world. While there are so many different feelings that can’t be expressed or categorized, with each verse, Will Lynch verbalizes things that others may feel but cannot express.
Download or read book Wildfire written by Alianor True and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the summer of 2000, Americans from coast to coast witnessed the worst fire season in recorded history. Daily news reports brought dramatic images of vast swaths of land going up in smoke, from the mountains of Montana and Wyoming, to the scrublands of Texas, to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a controlled burn gone awry threatened forests, homes, and even our nation's nuclear secrets. As they have for centuries, wildfires captured our attention and our imagination, reminding us of the power of the natural forces that shape our world. In Wildfire: A Reader nature writer and wildland firefighter Alianor True gathers together for the first time some of the finest stories and essays ever written about wildfire in America. From Mark Twain to Norman Maclean to Edward Abbey, writers featured here depict and record wildfires with remarkable depth and clarity. An ecological perspective is well represented through the works of John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and John McPhee. Ed Engle, Louise Wagenknecht, and Gretchen Yost, firefighters from the front lines, give us exciting first-person perspectives, reliving their on-the-ground encounters with forest fires. The works gathered in Wildfire not only explore the sensory and aesthetic aspects of fire, but also highlight how much attitudes have changed over the past 200 years. From Native Americans who used fire as a tool, to early Americans who viewed it as a frightening and destructive force, to Aldo Leopold and other conservationists whose ideas caused us to rethink the value and role of fire, this rich collection is organized around those shifts in thinking. Capturing the fury and the heat of a raging inferno, or the quiet emergence of wildflowers sprouting from ashes, the writings included in Wildfire represent a vital and compelling addition to the nature writing and natural history bookshelf.
Book Synopsis The World's Worst Wildfires by : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Download or read book The World's Worst Wildfires written by Tracy Nelson Maurer and published by Capstone Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind blows dry, tall grass. A storm brews. Lightning strikes the ground, and soon, flames spread across the grassland. It's a wildfire!
Download or read book Wildfire written by Zane Grey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Book Synopsis Lies Like Wildfire by : Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
Download or read book Lies Like Wildfire written by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez and published by Ember. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense high-stakes story about five friends and the deadly secret that could send their lives up in flames, perfect for fans of Karen McManus and E. Lockhart. “Five fiery stars for this bingeable, edge-of-your-seat, twisty thriller.”—NATASHA PRESTON, New York Times bestselling author of The Lake In Gap Mountain, California, everyone knows about fire season. And no one is more vigilant than 18-year-old Hannah Warner, the sheriff's daughter and aspiring FBI agent. That is until this summer. When Hannah and her best friends accidentally spark an enormous and deadly wildfire, their instinct is to lie to the police and the fire investigators. But as the blaze roars through their rural town and towards Yosemite National Park, Hannah's friends begin to crack and she finds herself going to extreme lengths to protect their secret. Because sometimes good people do bad things. And if there’s one thing people hate, it’s liars.
Download or read book Wildfire! written by Elizabeth Starr Hill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with his great-grandmother in rural Florida, ten-year-old Ben looks forward to the Fourth of July celebrations, but the day becomes complicated by the presence of a new neighbor boy, a stray puppy, and local wildfires.
Book Synopsis Awakening to Wildfire by : Jannah Minnix
Download or read book Awakening to Wildfire written by Jannah Minnix and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The night of October 8, 2017, the wind howled, the land was arid, and humidity was low. At 11:36 PM a spark from a downed power line hit dry vegetation and started a small fire. It grew into a raging, racing inferno that would consume a massive part of a small town in northern California. The fire would forever change the lives of the people of Redwood Valley and their neighbors in nearby communities. Nine lives were lost, and hundreds of structures destroyed. This became known as the Mendocino Lake Complex Fire, or Redwood Valley Fire. During and following the fire, what stood out were peoples' stories of their escapes, sorrows, miracles, and blessings: Friends lost; pets found; midnight drives on windy dirt roads through a smoky haze; flowers blooming in the ash--everyone had a memory to share. Awakening to Wildfire captures dozens of these stories and presents them to you in written and visual mediums. Through this we hope to convey an idea of the magnitude and key moments of the fire, as well as the strength, courage, and resilience of those who survived it. Publication is made possible by funding from the Redwood Valley and Santa Rosa Community Recovery Grant Program.
Book Synopsis Playing with Wildfire by : Laura Pritchett
Download or read book Playing with Wildfire written by Laura Pritchett and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An immersive story of a changing landscape, innovatively told." —KIRKUS When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety—resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for a wildfire; a burned mountain’s conversation with a lone woman and an injured bear. Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and life, and how destruction can lead to renewal.
Book Synopsis Trees in Trouble by : Daniel Mathews
Download or read book Trees in Trouble written by Daniel Mathews and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in–depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn boss, activists, and more. Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for saving this important, limited resource. Mathews transports the reader from the exquisitely aromatic haze of ponderosa and Jeffrey pine groves to the fantastic gnarls and whorls of five–thousand–year–old bristlecone pines, from genetic test nurseries where white pine seedlings are deliberately infected with their mortal enemy to the hottest megafire sites and neighborhoods leveled by fire tornadoes or ember blizzards. Scrupulously researched, Trees in Trouble not only explores the devastating ripple effects of climate change, but also introduces us to the people devoting their lives to saving our forests. Mathews also offers hope: a new approach to managing western pine forests is underway. Trees in Trouble explores how we might succeed in sustaining our forests through the challenging transition to a new environment.
Download or read book Wildfire Loose written by Joyce Butler and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history. Wildfire Loose describes how the fires started and spread so quickly through rural villages, down Millionaire’s Row in Bar Harbor, and across southern Maine beach resorts. Originally published in 1979, it remains the definitive account of “The Week Maine Burned.”
Download or read book Fires written by William B. Rice and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps nothing is more frightening than seeing a forest fire rage out of control. Sometimes, however, fires are set intentionally to benefit the environment. Readers will learn not only what fire is and how it burns, they also learn how fires can both help and harm the areas they affect.
Download or read book Fire in the Heart written by Mary Emerick and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRE IN THE HEART is a powerful memoir by a woman, once a shy, insecure schoolgirl, who reinvented herself as a professional wildland fire fighter. Determined to forge herself into a stronger, braver person, Mary climbs to new heights for a woman in the field in the 90s, eventually becoming a team commander of a Florida wildfire division. Filled with literal struggles for survival, tough choices and Mary's burning passion for what she does, Fire in the Heart, is an unflinching account of one woman's relationship with fire. But when she loses someone she loves to the famous Storm King Mountain forest fire in Colorado, which killed fourteen firefighters, Mary faces the hardest choice of her life; to stay in the game or turn back and try to find the woman she used to be. It is both a thrilling memoir about life-threatening work and a meditation on identity, strength, bravery, bonds, and survivor's guilt.
Download or read book Fires written by Michael Woods and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2006-07-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the many causes and devastating effects of fires.
Download or read book Jumping Fire written by Murry A. Taylor and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “terrifying, grimly funny” memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers “an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils” (The New Yorker). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung up his chute after the summer of 2000—the worst fire season in more than fifty years. In Jumping Fire, Taylor recounts in thrilling detail one summer of parachuting out of planes to battle blazes in the vast, rugged wilderness of Alaska, with tales of training, digging fire lines, run-ins with bears, and the heroics of fellow jumpers who fell in the line of duty. This unique memoir, filled with humor, fear, tragedy, joy, and countless stories of man versus nature at its most furious, is a “tale of love and loss, life and death, and sheer hard work, set in an unforgiving and unforgettable landscape” (Publishers Weekly). “Filled with adventure, danger and tragedy.” —The New York Times Book Review “A beautifully crafted, wise yet thrilling book.” —Los Angeles Times
Book Synopsis On the Burning Edge by : Kyle Dickman
Download or read book On the Burning Edge written by Kyle Dickman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, which killed nineteen elite firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and also inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. “A tear-jerking classic.”—Outside • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Men’s Journal On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than eight thousand acres in northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters—the Granite Mountain Hotshots—walked together into the Yarnell Hill Fire, tools in their hands and emergency fire shelters on their hips. Only one of them walked out. An award-winning journalist and former wildland firefighter, Kyle Dickman brings to the story a professional’s understanding of how wildfires ignite, how they spread, and how they are fought. He understands hotshots and their culture: the pain and glory of a rough and vital job, the brotherly bonds born of dangerous work. Drawing on dozens of interviews with officials, families of the fallen, and the lone survivor, he describes in vivid detail what it’s like to stand inside a raging fire—and shows how the increased population and decreased water supply of the American West guarantee that many more young men will step into harm’s way in the coming years. Praise for On the Burning Edge “Dickman weaves a century of fire-management history into the fully realized stories of the men’s lives—the sweat, the adrenaline, the orange glow of fire within their aluminum shelters, and the chewing gum that hotshot Scott Norris left in the shower before telling his girlfriend, Heather, ‘I’ll take care of it later. I promise.’”—Outside “Dickman offers a riveting account of a dangerous occupation and acts of nature most violent—and those who face both down.”—Library Journal
Book Synopsis The Wildfire Season by : Andrew Pyper
Download or read book The Wildfire Season written by Andrew Pyper and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted. Scarred. Alone. And the nightmare's just beginning. Of all the end-of-the-world places he could have run to after he was burned, Miles McEwan chose Ross River. Buried deep in the vast wilderness of the Yukon, it seemed the perfect place to escape the past. Best of all, he could carry on doing what he did best--fighting fire. But five years on, Miles is still troubled by two phantoms of his previous life: the young man whose agonizing death preys on his conscience, and the woman he abandoned as a consequence. And in the dark forest around Ross River, fire and violence are brewing. As a small blaze becomes an inferno, a group of bear trackers is about to encounter nature in its wildest form. Elsewhere a killer is going about his work, quietly and ruthlessly. As the survivors of the hunting party are picked off one by one and fire rages through the mountains, Miles embarks on a desperate rescue mission, driven by love for a daughter who, until this dangerous summer, had been a perfect stranger. A remarkable work, The Wildfire Season is an edgy psychological thriller, a supernatural chiller, a terrifying tale of untamed nature, and an unusual--and unusually moving--story of what one can choose to endure in the name of love.
Book Synopsis Territory Beyond Terra by : Kimberley Peters
Download or read book Territory Beyond Terra written by Kimberley Peters and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a focus on the planet’s elements, environments, and edges, to extend our understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of contemporary politics.
