<P>?<EM>Fire Season</EM> both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau?and I loved it.?<BR>?J.R. Moehringer, author of <EM>The Tender Bar</EM></P> <P>?[Connors?s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.?<BR>?Walter Kirn, author of <EM>Up in the Air</EM></P> <P>Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, <EM>Fire Season</EM>, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, <EM>Fire Season</EM> is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford?s bestselling <EM>Shop Class as Soulcraft</EM>, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.<BR></P>