Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world
Vaillant, John2024
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In May 2016, a Canadian oil town was overrun by wildfire, turning entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and driving 90,000 people from their homes. Through the gripping story of this apocalyptic conflagration, John Vaillant explores our relationship with fire, an energy source that has been our partner in evolution for hundreds of millennia, shaping our culture and civilization. Now, in our age of intensifying climate change, its destructive power has been unleashed in ways previously unimaginable. 'Fire Weather' is an astounding account of this century's most intense urban fire, and an urgent examination of humanity's future in an ever-hotter, more flammable world.
Main title:
Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world / John Vaillant.
Author:
Vaillant, John, author
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2024.
Collation:
414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
Awards:
Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction 2023
ISBN:
9781399720236 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2474782