Description: "A poignant and ruminative work of creative nonfiction by the best selling, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of Fire Season. The Mountain Knows the Mountain tells the story of the writer's return to the Gila Wilderness for fire season after missing a year for multiple surgeries. Reminiscent in spirit and lyricism to great works from Peter Matthiesen, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, and Norman MacLean."--Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Philip Connors has been a fire watcher in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness for twenty-three years. He is the author of Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, which won the 2011 National Outdoor Book Award. He is also the author of All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found and A Song for the River. He lives in southern New Mexico.
Review Quotes: "The Mountain Knows the Mountain is the finest example I've ever read that reveals what it is to 'think like a mountain, ' a notion forwarded by Aldo Leopold and perfected by Phil Connors. His book is a perfect meld of prose and poetry (mostly haiku) that is an expression of profound love for a mountain habitat where he has long served as a fire lookout. This elegiac book re-sacralizes a habitat long fallen prey to debilitating bureaucracy that secularizes the natural world through commitment to erroneous, often fatal procedure."--Jack Loeffler, author of Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West