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Norman MacLean

Young Men and Fire

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On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen Smokejumpers, the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Less than two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or fatally burned. Exactly what happened in Mann Gulch that day has been obscured by years of grief and controversy. Now a master storyteller finally gives the Mann Gulch fire its due as tragedy. Norman Maclean first saw the Mann Gulch fire as it still burned in mid-August 1949, and even then he knew he would one day become a part of its story. Maclean spent the last fourteen years… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-226-50061-4
  • EAN: 9780226500614
  • Produktnummer: 9588366
  • Verlag: Univ Of Chicago Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
  • Seitenangabe: 316 S.
  • Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.8 cm 603 g
  • Auflage: New.
  • Gewicht: 603
  • Sonstiges: Ab 14 - 18 J.

Über den Autor


Norman Maclean (1902-1990), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in the Western Rocky Mountains of Montana and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forestry Service before beginning his academic career. He was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago until 1973.

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