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100 1 $aTaylor, Murry A.
245 10 $aJumping fire :$ba smokejumper's memoir of fighting wildfire /$cMurry A. Taylor.
250 $a1st ed.
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300 $axii, 445 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
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520 $aDuring 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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