Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire AUTH-10671971 Smedly Butler "The Fighting Quaker"

Smedly Butler "The Fighting Quaker"

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Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire AUTH-10671971 Smedly Butler "The Fighting Quaker"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 fueled jumps, his brushes with death, the fires he conquered, and the ones that got away. It's a world full