Fire Weather
A True Story from a Hotter World
Published on 6. June 2023
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-5247-3285-1 (ISBN)
Description
"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Rough front
Illustrations
15 PHOTOS IN TEXT; 8PP 4C; 2 MAPS IN TEXT
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5247-3285-1 (9781524732851)
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JOHN VAILLANT's acclaimed, award-winning nonfiction books, The Golden Spruce and The Tiger, were national best sellers. His debut novel, The Jaguar's Children, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Vaillant has received the Governor General's Literary Award, British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and the Pearson Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He has written for, among others, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Guardian. He lives in Vancouver.