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Fire
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
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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- Darwen71
- 01-04-21
Flaming hell
An account of forest fire, devoid of plot or character and as arid as the forests described therein. Probably one for those who enjoy reading health & safety manuals.
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