Overview
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, TIME, NPR, Slate, and Smithsonian
āGrips like a philosophical thriller, warns like a beacon, and shocks to the core."Ā āRobert Macfarlane, bestselling author of Underland
āRiveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page.ā āDavid Wallace-Wells, #1 bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth
In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canadaās oil industry and Americaās biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagrationāthe wildfire equivalent of Hurricane KatrinaāJohn Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.
Fire has been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of millennia,Ā shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways.
With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on aĀ riveting journeyĀ through the intertwined histories of North Americaās oil industry and the birth of climate science, to theĀ unprecedented devastation wrought byĀ modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters.Ā John Vaillantās urgent work is a book forāand fromāour new century of fire, which has only just begun.
This book title, Fire Weather (On the Front Lines of a Burning World), ISBN: 9780525434245, by John Vaillant, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (June 11, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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