
Fire on the Mountain
The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
John N. MacLean(Author)
HarperCollins (Publisher)
Published on 8. December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-06-182961-1 (ISBN)
Description
In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemingly minor human error was merely the first in a string of mistakes that would be compounded into one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. Before it was done, fourteen courageous firefighters--men and women, hotshots, smokejumpers, and helicopter crew--would lose their lives battling the deadly, so-called South Canyon blaze. John N. Maclean's award-winning national bestseller Fire on the Mountain is a stunning reconstruction of the killer conflagration and its aftermath.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Maps
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
385 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-182961-1 (9780061829611)
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07/2024
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Person
John N. Maclean is the author of Home Waters, a memoir of his family’s four-generation connection to Montana’s Blackfoot River, which his father, Norman Maclean, made famous in A River Runs through It. He spent thirty years at the Chicago Tribune, then wrote five nonfiction books about wildland fire that are considered a staple of fire literature. Maclean, an avid fly fisherman, lives in Washington, DC, and at a family cabin in Montana.