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Matthew Desmond

On the Fireline

Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters

384 pages, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing  6 x 9  © 2007
Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries

Cloth $24.00

ISBN: 9780226144085   Published October 2007

Paper $18.00

ISBN: 9780226144092   Published August 2009

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ISBN: 9780226144078

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Introduction 
    
Part One  History and Place
1. Country Masculinity 
2. The Sanctuary of the Forest   
 
Part Two  Training and Discipline
3. A Joke between Brothers  
4. Real Firefighters Drive Green Engines  
5. Learning and Burning
6. Taking the "Wild" Out of Wildfire 
 
Part Three    Fire and Death
7. The Beaver Creek Fire    
8. The Incompetent Dead
Conclusion   
 
Appendix: Between Native and Alien   
Glossary 
Notes    
Acknowledgments   
Index
Subjects


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