The Seasons of Fire
Subtitle: Reflections on Fire in the West (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780874174830
Subjects: Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena; Forests, rainforests; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Wildfire fighters; Nature; Forest Fires; Human Ecology; Strohmaier, David J; Nature/Ecology; Prevention and control; Natural Disasters; Wildfires; Ecology; Forests & Forestry; Fire ecology; Northwest, Pacific
Description: "Fire is a powerful constant in the American West. Everyone who lives in the region confronts fire intimately or frighteningly at some time. As author David J. Strohmaier notes, "Whether we have tended a campfire along Oregon's Deschutes River in March, engaged the advancing front of a Great Basin wildfire in the torrid heat of August, or watched fire settle into the subdued, smoldering leaf piles of October, all of our lives, to one degree or another, are bracketed by fire." In The Seasons of Fire, Strohmaier effectively blends nature writing, personal essay, and philosophical analysis as he discusses the moral dimensions of fire - not only whether fires are good, bad, or indifferent phenomena, but also how fire, more generally understood, shapes meaning for human life. The consequences of discussing the moral side of fire speak directly to the contours of the human soul, and to our sense of place on the land."--Jacket.