Fire

Stewart, George R.

ISBN 10: 0395125480 / ISBN 13: 9780395125489

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1971

About this Item

Uncommon in dustjacket. Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries. So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire?smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake. Firefighters and lookouts, forest rangers and smokejumpers?as well as animals in the forest, many of them the bewildered victims of the blaze, and all the varied tress and bushes there?are characters of this realistic story.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fire
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395125480
• ISBN 13: 9780395125489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 21 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fireā smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake.

Firefighters and lookouts, forest rangers and smokejumpersā as well as animals in the forest, many of them the bewildered victims of the blaze, and all the varied tress and bushes thereā are characters of this realistic story.

About the Author

Other books by George R. Stewart available in Bison Book editions are Storm (BB 826) and The California Trail (BB 850).