
Lookout
Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
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Trina Moyles
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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 spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. "I could never do it," she told herself.
Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she left northern Alberta to pursue a decade-long career in global humanitarian work. After three years in East Africa, and newly engaged, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to sponsor her fiance, Akello's, immigration to Canada. Despite her fear of being alone in the woods, she applied for a seasonal lookout position and got the job.
Thus begins Trina's first summer as one of a handful of lookouts scattered throughout Alberta, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled "a domesticated wolf" by her former owners--to keep her company. While searching for smoke, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship--and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. Through megafires, lightning storms, and stunning encounters with wildlife, she learns to survive at the fire tower by forging deep connections with nature and with an extraordinary community of people dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. In isolation, she discovers a kind of self-awareness--and freedom--that only solitude can deliver.
Lookout is a riveting story of loss, transformation, and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the destructive and regenerative power of wildfire in our northern forests.
©2021 Trina Moyles (P)2021 Penguin Random House CanadaVous pourriez aussi aimer...
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WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARDS IN THE OUTDOOR LITERATURE CATEGORY
FINALIST FOR THE ROBERT KROETSCH CITY OF EDMONTON BOOK PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE ALBERTA LITERARY AWARDS (MEMOIR)
“Moyles tells a totally engrossing story of fear and love, self-recrimination and healing, by turns vivid with memory and presence. Page after page, I felt immersed in the rejuvenating wonders of the natural world, rendered here in all their magnificent, everchanging detail. Reader, you will roar through this book.” (Charlotte Gill, author of Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe)
“Trina Moyles has written a beautiful, closely observed love letter to the boreal forest and the wilderness of northern Canada at a time when it is threatened by unprecedented change. But Lookout is more than that: it's also a powerful, unforgettable story about the ways that solitude in nature can break us down, and then put us back together again.” (Eva Holland, author of Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear)
“A vital and howling missive of a book. Lookout holds the wide wisdom and fierce beauty of the boreal forest it depicts. Trina Moyles has spent several seasons sitting in the fire, looking into the heat of love, death and regenerated life; experiencing solitude as intensifying tincture. She writes as a wild and erudite witness, bursting with hunger and feral passion for the living world.” (Kyo Maclear, author of Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation)
I didn't want it to end
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Absolutely Fantastic!
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Outstanding Memoir
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Love of the wild, love of solitude, love for others, love for ourselves, and the love of dog.
A wild love story.
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Binge-Listened, will-do every season I reckon
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A breath of fresh air
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Fabulous, I won’t forget Moyles voice or words
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Through that lens, she turns a keen eye to themes of love, loss, isolation, solitude and ultimately meaning and healing. This is a book that will stay with me for a long time.
Read by the author whose meditative voice strikes just the right note for her poetic prose. A welcome addition to the pantheon of the best of Canadian wildlife literature.
Achingly beautiful memoir
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Having experienced bushfires (Australia) and wildfires (BC) firsthand, I've grown an interest in wildland firefighting-related topics. However, this book gives a whole new level of humanity. The struggle of cross-country love, the difficult decision, isolation and punishment, the slow aching progress of being able to open up again, eventually finding calmness and confidence up in the tower.
It's refreshing to see a book about Canadian fire. Many mentioned were close to home and I still have memories of. Especially exciting to hear it from a female perspective. I love how Trina read it herself - we've heard way too many good books with good stories ruined by a monotoned narrator. Her voice was so calming and engaging. The tone shows the excitement, embarrassment, upsetness, joy, and basically all spectrum of emotion spot on!
After finishing the audiobook, I've placed an order on Amazon for a hard copy. It deserves at least a couple more times sit-down read while I'm alone.
Feeling every line deep in my bone!
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take time to envision
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