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Young Men and Fire

By Norman Maclean

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Young Men and Fire

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Twenty-five years after its first publication, Young Men and Fire is read avidly by students of literary nonfiction for its blend of hard-earned research, memoir, and an old man's wisdom. It tells one of the most infamous stories in the history of wildland firefighting: On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. On the ground, they were joined by a local fireguard. Two hours after the jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. For forty years, Maclean was haunted by these deaths. And for the last years of his life, he struggled to write a book that would put back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch disaster and to give it the dignity of tragedy. The result is both the definitive account of what happened to the Smokejumpers on that remote Montana mountainside in 1949, and the narrative of a writer's quest for meaning in the face of elusive facts and the waning energies of old age.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
25
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2017-05-01
Publication Date:
2017-05-01
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
022645035X
ISBN13:
9780226450353
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
464 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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