Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters

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Price
$16.95  $15.76
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Publish Date
Pages
344
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.6 X 1.0 inches | 1.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781517903428

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About the Author

Cary J. Griffith is the author of four books, including Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods; Opening Goliath, winner of the 2010 Minnesota Book Award; Wolves, winner of a Midwest Book Award; and Sava

Reviews

Skillfully wielding his narrative talent, Cary J. Griffith leads readers into the blistering heart of the 2007 Ham Lake fire, one of the most destructive in Minnesota history.
--Peter M. Leschak, author of Ghosts of the Fireground


Cary J. Griffith invites his readers beneath the smoke and flames of a running crown wildfire to show us the massive coordinated response to one camper's carelessness. His precise research and his clearheaded storytelling serve admirably to unde


Gunflint Burning brings the adrenaline, the falling ash, the smell of smoke, and the jarring scream of a crown fire to its detailed narrative of a wildfire in one of America's best-loved wilderness areas. Cary J. Griffith carries the re


In Gunflint Burning, Cary J. Griffith has penned the consummate story of one of the great wildfire disasters in the history of Minnesota. Expertly reported and cleverly written, this account of the Ham Lake fire of 2007 reads like a thriller