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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 arenaline-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.
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Smokejumping, Wildfires, Smokejumpers, Anecdotes, Fire fighters, biography, Forest fires, New York Times reviewedPeople
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Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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0547541074 9780547541075
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Jumping fire: a smokejumper's memoir of fighting wildfire
2001, Harcourt
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- 1st Harvest ed.
0156013975 9780156013970
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Jumping fire: a smokejumper's memoir of fighting wildfire
2000, Harcourt
in English
- 1st ed.
0151005893 9780151005895
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Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
June 5, 2000, Harcourt
in English
0151005893 9780151005895
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