Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Name: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Author: John Vaillant
ISBN: 9781399720212

John Vaillant

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

John Vaillant

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Fire Weather won the Baillie Gifford Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist, a Writers' Trust Award Finalist, shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize, a Guardian Book of the Year, and a New York Times Book of the Year. 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.

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