Hotshot

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7562646Hotshothttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/hotshot-9780802149510/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7183703/image.jpg?v=638894904092400000376523MXNGrove AtlanticInStock/Ebooks/The fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefightingFrom 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their lifeof Ana, the struggles she encountered, and the contours of what it meant to be female-bodied in a male-dominated profession.By the time they were 19, Selby had been homeless, addicted to drugs, and sexually assaulted more than once. In a last-ditch effort to find direction, they applied to be a wildland firefighter. Soon immersed in the world of firefighting and its arcanafrom specialized tools named for the fire pioneers who invented them, to the back-breaking labor of racing against time to create firebreaksSelby began to find an internal balance. Then, after two years of ragtag contract firefighting, Selby joined an elite class of specially trained wildland firefighters known as hotshots.Over the course of five fire seasons, Selby delves into the world of the peoplealmost entirely menwho risk their lives to fight and sometimes prevent wildfires. Marked out in a sea of machismo, Selby was simultaneously hyper visible and invisible, and Hotshot deftly parses the odd mix of camaraderie and rampant sexism they experienced on their fire crews, and how, when challenged, it resulted in a violent closing of ranks that excluded them from the work theyd come to love. Drawing on years of firsthand experience on the frontlines of fire, followed by years of research into the science and history of fire, Hotshot also reckons with our fraught stewardship of the landhow federal fire policy is maladapted to the realities of fire-prone landscapes and how it has led to ever more severe fire seasons.Hotshot is a work of intimacy and authority, nimbly merging a personal journey of reinvention and self-acceptance with expert insight into the textured history of ecological systems and Indigenous land tending, the modern practices that have led to their imbalance, and the people who fight fire....7177409Hotshot376523https://www.gandhi.com.mx/hotshot-9780802149510/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7183703/image.jpg?v=638894904092400000InStockMXN99999PR_DIEbook20259780802149510_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9780802149510_The fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefightingFrom 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their lifeof Ana, the struggles she encountered, and the contours of what it meant to be female-bodied in a male-dominated profession.By the time they were 19, Selby had been homeless, addicted to drugs, and sexually assaulted more than once. In a last-ditch effort to find direction, they applied to be a wildland firefighter. Soon immersed in the world of firefighting and its arcanafrom specialized tools named for the fire pioneers who invented them, to the back-breaking labor of racing against time to create firebreaksSelby began to find an internal balance. Then, after two years of ragtag contract firefighting, Selby joined an elite class of specially trained wildland firefighters known as hotshots.Over the course of five fire seasons, Selby delves into the world of the peoplealmost entirely menwho risk their lives to fight and sometimes prevent wildfires. Marked out in a sea of machismo, Selby was simultaneously hyper visible and invisible, and Hotshot deftly parses the odd mix of camaraderie and rampant sexism they experienced on their fire crews, and how, when challenged, it resulted in a violent closing of ranks that excluded them from the work theyd come to love. Drawing on years of firsthand experience on the frontlines of fire, followed by years of research into the science and history of fire, Hotshot also reckons with our fraught stewardship of the landhow federal fire policy is maladapted to the realities of fire-prone landscapes and how it has led to ever more severe fire seasons.Hotshot is a work of intimacy and authority, nimbly merging a personal journey of reinvention and self-acceptance with expert insight into the textured history of ecological systems and Indigenous land tending, the modern practices that have led to their imbalance, and the people who fight fire....9780802149510_Grove Atlanticlibro_electonico_9780802149510_9780802149510River SelbyInglésMéxico2025-08-12T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram50-epub-a8bbd24d-d23e-42fa-af9a-742fa9ad953a.epub2025-08-12T00:00:00+00:00Grove Atlantic