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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

Name: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
ISBN: 9780618968411

Timothy Egan

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On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men — college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps — to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot.

Thể loại:

Biology and other natural sciences - Ecology

Năm:

2009

In lần thứ:

1ST

Nhà xuát bản:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ngôn ngữ:

english

ISBN 10:

0618968415