Jumping Fire

This “terrifying, grimly funny” memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers “an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils” ( The New Yorker ). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year   Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung up his chute after the summer of 2000—the worst fire season in more than fifty years. In Jumping Fire , Taylor recounts in thrilling detail one summer of parachuting out of planes to battle blazes in the vast, ru