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On the fireline : living and dying with wildland firefighters
- Title
- On the fireline : living and dying with wildland firefighters / Matthew Desmond.
- Author
- Desmond, Matthew.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 369 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-353) and index.
- Contents
- History and place. Country masculinity -- The sanctuary of the forest -- Training and discipline. A joke between brothers -- Real firefighters drive green engines -- Learning and burning -- Taking the "wild" out of wildfire -- Fire and death. The Beaver Creek Fire -- The incompetent dead.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-1580
- ISBN
- 9780226144085 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226144089 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007010878
- OCLC
- 86109930
- Author
- Desmond, Matthew.
- Title
- On the fireline : living and dying with wildland firefighters / Matthew Desmond.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
- Series
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-353) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-1580