Fire on the Mountain

Fire On the Mountain by John N. MacLean.

First edition, first printing published by Harper Collins 1999. Near fine in a near fine jacket, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page.

The author's first book, a non fiction work about the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado which claimed the lives of fourteen fire fighters. Winner of the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for best non-fiction. A stirring work of tragedy in the same vein as his late father's work Young Men and Fire. John is the son of Norman MacLean, the famed writer of A River Run's Through It.