2 Ergebnisse.

It's 1972, and seventeen-year-old Linda Strader's parents do the unthinkable-they move from Syracuse, New York to Prescott, Arizona. At first, Linda is furious and doesn't want to move. True, life in Syracuse isn't perfect, but all her friends are there. Then she has a thought: maybe this move won't be so bad. What if she can make herself into someone new? Expecting a desert, Linda is surprised to find Prescott surrounded by pine-covered mount...

Linda Strader is one of the first women hired on a fire crew with the U.S. Forest Service. A naïve twenty-year-old in the mid 1970s, she discovers fighting wildfires is challenging-but in a man's world, they became only one of the challenges she would face. Battling fire is exhilarating, yet exhausting, the discrimination real and sometimes in her face. Summers of Fire is an adventure story that honestly recounts the seven years she ventures i...