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ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Lookout
Author: Trina MoylesPublisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0735279918
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north. While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. "I could never do it," she told herself. Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she left northern Alberta to pursue a decade-long career in global humanitarian work. After three years in East Africa, and newly engaged, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to sponsor her fiance, Akello's, immigration to Canada. Despite her fear of being alone in the woods, she applied for a seasonal lookout position and got the job. Thus begins Trina's first summer as one of a handful of lookouts scattered throughout Alberta, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled "a domesticated wolf" by her former owners--to keep her company. While searching for smoke, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship--and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. Through megafires, lightning storms, and stunning encounters with wildlife, she learns to survive at the fire tower by forging deep connections with nature and with an extraordinary community of people dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. In isolation, she discovers a kind of self-awareness--and freedom--that only solitude can deliver. Lookout is a riveting story of loss, transformation, and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the destructive and regenerative power of wildfire in our northern forests.
Lookout America!
Author: Kevin HamiltonPublisher: Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture
ISBN: 9781512603279
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The story of the Cold War era Lookout Mountain Laboratory, or the 1352nd Photographic Group of the United States Air Force, which employed hundreds of Hollywood studio veterans. Engages with issues of the Cold War state and visual culture"--
The JAG Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Author: United States. Warren CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Circular
Author: Naval Training Bulletin
Author: Seamanship
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval PersonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seamanship
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Border security new policies and procedures are needed to fill gaps in the visa revocation process : report to Congressional requesters
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428939164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
FSH.
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ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Fireman's Handbook
Author: United States. Forest ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description