Firelines: A Memoir of Wildlands Fire Fighting:

FIRELINES "...Hurrying, always hurrying at the very edge of safety, to sweat for an unknown number of hours in heat that drains human energy like a wet sponge on asphalt is sapped of its moisture when left exposed in summer's boiling sun...battling fatigue, exhaustion, hunger, thirst, you are always fighting the sheer hardness of it all..." Experience wildlands fire fightingin northern California in the mid-1970's, at the ground level, meeting the men and women who work to control one of Na...