Young Men and Fire Audible – Abridged

Young Men and Fire Audible – Abridged dged
Author: John MacLean ID: B000056HDS

National Book Critics Circle, Nonfiction, 1993On August 5, 1949, a crew of 15 of the U.S. Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Less than one hour later, all but three were dead or fatally burned in a “blowup,” an explosive 2,000-degree firestorm 300 feet tall. Norman MacLean spent the last 14 years of his life determined to sift through grief and controversy in search of the truth behind the Mann Gulch tragedy, one of the worst disasters in the history of the Forest Service. Young Men and Fire is the culmination of his investigations. It is a story about honor, death, compassion, and the human spirit.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 6 hours and 6 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: AbridgedPublisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksAudible.com Release Date: December 1, 2000Language: EnglishID: B000056HDS Best Sellers Rank: #125 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Nonfiction > Nature #154 in Books > science & Math > Biological Sciences > Plants > Trees #161 in Books > Science & Math > Earth Sciences > Natural Disasters
I decided to read "Young Men and Fire" because "A River Runs Through It" is one of my favorite novels/movies of all time. I’m afraid that my love for Maclean’s other novel artificially inflated/changed my expectations for this one, but once I adjusted to the different style, I slowly grew to love this book.

The book is basically cut in half, with the first half being a re-telling of the story of the Mann Gulch fire, and the second half being more of an expository on how Maclean researched the facts of the event in order to tell the story. Quite honestly, I was bored with the book when I started it, despite the fact that the event was tragic and the characters were heroic. It felt more like a newspaper article than the literature I loved in "A River…"

But, as I pushed through the story, I came to appreciate it for what it is. Mclean exudes passion for this subject, and this book is really a beautiful intersection of his prose-like writing style (it’s there, if less visibly than in "A River…"), his inexplicable passion for a subject to which he had no direct connection, and basic forensic study (ala CSI TV shows.)

Being a lover of outdoors and books that take place there, I can appreciate Mclean’s felt kinship with the Smokejumpers that are the central figures in this story. I was entertained by his constant ratings and comparisons of woodsmen that enter his story, much like others debate the merits of sports figures or politicians throughout time. And that leads me to this point — Mclean was a lover of the woods and the mountains and his brethern who shared this passion. Towards the end of his life, he found a passion that helped him to keep his mind sharp and to exert himself in the mountains he loved.
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