
A Song for the River
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Narrated by:
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Adam Verner
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By:
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Philip Connors
From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season - a story of calamity and resilience in the world’s first wilderness.
A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness to the blaze he had always feared: a megafire that forced him off his mountain by helicopter and forever changed the forest and watershed he loved. It was one of many transformations that arrived in quick succession, not just fire and flood, but the death of a fellow lookout in a freak accident and a tragic plane crash that rocked the community he called home.
Beginning as an elegy for a friend he cherished like a brother, A Song for the River opens into a chorus of voices singing in celebration of a landscape redolent with meaning - and the river that runs through it, whose waters are threatened by a potential dam.
The ways of water and the ways of fire, the lines tragedy carves on a life, the persistent renewal of green shoots sprouting from ash: These are the subjects of A Song for the River. Its argument on behalf of things wild and free could not be more timely; the goal is nothing less than permanent protection for that rarest of things in the American West, a free-flowing river - the sinuous and gorgeous Gila.
It must not perish.
A Publishers Weekly pick of best reads for summer.
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I suppose they can all stand alone. If you're looking for memoir, read All the Wrong Places. If you're looking for nature writing with not a lot of memoir, read Fire Season. And this third one...equal parts memoir and nature. I found this one the least cohesive of the three, but I still liked it.
There's little enough written about New Mexico (particularly the Gila Wilderness) so it's always a treat to find books about the state I live in and about places I've been.
If you're from New Mexico, read all 3 of his books
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It a cheap trick to quote the writing of others. Some personal details were simply too personal.
The book is similar to a diary with some interconnections but so many trips about those he lost and his illness.
I appreciate that he cared so much about these others but really didn’t need so much sadness in the times of COVID.
More of his eulogy than environment
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Annoying narration. Sing songs
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A bittersweet call to the Wilds
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