Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

by Trina Moyles

Book Overview

A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.

While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735279934
• ISBN13: 9780735279933
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"