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Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
Jumping Fire A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
Author: Murry A. Taylor
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 adrenaline...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780151005895
ISBN-10: 0151005893
Publication Date: 6/5/2000
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Legendary smokejumper Murry Taylor recounts in thrilling detail his three decades of parachuting out of planes to battle blazes in the vast, rugged wilderness of the West. Filled with humor, fear, tragedy and joy, Jumping Fire is a compelling story!
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