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Fire weather : the making of a beast / John Vaillant.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735273160 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Climatic changes. Forest fires > Environmental aspects. Forest fires > North America > History. Wildfires > North America > History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | 363.379 Vai | 31681010324259 | NONFIC | Checked out | 01/20/2026 |
- Random House, Inc.
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing ⢠Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction ⢠Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize ⢠Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize ⢠Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award ⢠Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction ⢠Finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction ⢠One of the New York Timesâ Top Ten Books of The Year ⢠Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Non-FictionÂ
A stunning account of the colossal wildfire at Fort McMurray, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce.
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian ⢠TIME ⢠The Globe and Mail ⢠The New Yorker ⢠Financial Times ⢠CBC ⢠Smithsonian ⢠Air Mail Weekly ⢠Slate ⢠NPR ⢠Toronto Star ⢠The Washington Post ⢠The Times ⢠Orion Magazine
In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's petroleum industry and America's 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 conflagrationâthe wildfire equivalent of Hurricane KatrinaâJohn 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.
  For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, 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 a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America's oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters. John Vaillant's urgent work is a book forâand fromâour new century of fire, which has only just begun.
