3.5
Young Men and Fire
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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction,
describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in this extraordinary book.
Alongside Maclean's now-canonical
,
is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This edition of Maclean's later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of
and
. As moving and profound as when it was first published,
honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul.
"A moving account of humanity, nature, and the perseverance of the human spirit." —
"Haunting." —
"Engrossing." —
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About Norman MacLean
(1902–90), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in and around Missoula, Montana, and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service before beginning his academic career. He was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago until 1973.
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