{"product_id":"the-mountain-knows-the-mountain-a-fire-watch-diary-hardcover","title":"The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Connors\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poignant and ruminative work of creative nonfiction by the bestselling, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFire Season. The Mountain Knows the Mountain \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of the writer's return to the Gila Wilderness for fire season after missign a year for multiple surgeries. Reminscent in spirit and lyricism to great works from Peter Matthiesen, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, and Norman MacLean.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMulti-award-winning writer Philip Connors had been a fire watcher in the Gila Wilderness for fourteen straight summers when he sustained an injury and was forced to miss a year recovering. When he returned, he resolved to see the mountain with fresh eyes and to keep a detailed notebook. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain Knows the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, a meticulously observed experience of one fire season chronicled in \u003ci\u003ehaibun\u003c\/i\u003e, the centuries-old prose form dating from Basho's \u003ci\u003eNarrow Road to the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e that recounts both inner and outer journeys and incorporates traditional haiku as an occasional element of narrative counterpoint. Though only a beginner in the practice of haiku, Connors deftly weaves close observation, personal reflection, and memory with hard-won knowledge of the forest, of the mountain, and of fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mountain Knows the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is both mythic and immediate, a chronicle of daily events granular in their specificity but connected to larger themes of the observed world and the inner life of the observer. Connors captures the various moods of a long season on a mountain; plays with language and ways of seeing; and includes contributing perspectives from his partner, Mónica Ortiz Uribe, and his friend the late editor and publisher Bobby Byrd. Together with the author's own simple drawings, the resulting snapshots offer incisive visions of how to be intimate with the wild.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Connors \u003c\/b\u003ehas been a fire watcher in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness for twenty-three years. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2011 National Outdoor Book Award. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Song for the River\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in southern New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.58 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44826900004966,"sku":"9780826368348","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Vin4VTh79Q9780826368348.webp?v=1772002441","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-mountain-knows-the-mountain-a-fire-watch-diary-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}