Fire weather a true story from a hotter world

Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning.

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Main Author: Vaillant, John (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning.
"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"--
Item Description:A Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Physical Description:414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401) and index.
ISBN:9781524732851
1524732850
9780525434245
0525434240
Author Notes: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.