Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
Norman Maclean
- ISBN-13
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 2017
- Pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardcover, new
Nonfiction account by Norman Maclean (University of Chicago Press, 2017, twenty-fifth anniversary edition). Recounts the 1949 Mann Gulch fire in Montana, where all but three of fifteen Smokejumpers died. Hardcover, 352 pages.
About this book
Young Men and Fire is Norman Maclean’s work of nonfiction about the Mann Gulch fire of August 5, 1949. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017 as a 352-page hardcover with a new foreword by Timothy Egan.
On that day a crew of fifteen Smokejumpers, the US Forest Service’s airborne firefighters, parachuted toward a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after the jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Maclean, haunted by these deaths for forty years, pieces together what happened.
The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the publisher describes it as a classic of the American West.
Product details
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| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
|---|---|
| Published | 2017 |
| Author | Norman Maclean |
| Format | Hardcover, 352 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-47545-5 |
| ISBN-10 | 022647545X |
| Size | 8.6 × 5.6 × 1.4 in · 1.3 lb |
| Condition | New |
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