Lookout
Book description
A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.
While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Lookout as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book tackles themes of independence and loneliness -- questions in life that I have long held close to my heart.
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