Inside the Flames: The Untold Story of a Hotshot’s Fierce Battle for Survival
Wildland firefighting in Hotshot is a brutal endeavour, one that often goes unseen and underappreciated. Throughout the memoir, Selby weaves their personal history as a hotshot in with narrative strands of environmental and colonialist history, which they argue is inextricable from the work of firefighting as it exists today. The history of fire in North America is the history of so many larger forms of systemic oppression, ones which Selby struggles with intensely throughout the book: environmentalism and climate change; the suppression of indigenous ecological wisdom; colonialism and manifest destiny; plus the desire to dominate and control the natural world.
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