Big Burn（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind
moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington,
Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning
across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had
assembled nearly ten thousand men—college boys, day workers,
immigrants from mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living
person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers
nor anyone else knew how to subdue them.
　　Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against
the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally
dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy
Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the
notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than
create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by
and preserved for every citizen.

　　TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and the
author of six books, most recently The Big
Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved
America, a New York Times bestseller and winner of
the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Washington
State Book Award. His previous books include
The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award
and was named a New York Times Editors’
Choice. He is an online op-ed columnist for the
New York Times, writing his “Opinionator” feature once a
week.He is a third-generation Westerner and lives in
Seattle.