Name: Hotshot - River Selby
Brand: River Selby
Price: 133.92 RON
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nThe fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefightingn nFrom 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their life--of Ana, the struggles she encountered, and the contours of what it meant to be female-bodied in a male-dominated profession. n nBy 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 arcana--from specialized tools named for the fire pioneers who invented them, to the back-breaking labor of racing against time to create firebreaks--Selby 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. n nOver the course of five fire seasons, Selby delves into the world of the people--almost entirely men--who 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 they'd come to love. Drawing on years of firsthand exper