Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARnbspnbspFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONnbsp A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changingnbsprelationship between fire and humankind from the awardwinning bestselling author of The Tiger and The
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BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Washington Post The New Yorker TIME NPR Slate and SmithsonianGrips like a philosophical thriller warns like a beacon and shocks to the corenbspRobert Macfarlane bestselling author of UnderlandRiveting spellbinding astounding on every page David WallaceWellsbestselling author of The Uninhabitable EarthIn MayFort McMurray the hub of Canadas oil industry and Americas biggest foreign supplier was overrun by wildfire The multibilliondollar disaster melted vehicles turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs and drovepeople from their homes in a single afternoon Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagrationthe wildfire equivalent of Hurricane KatrinaJohn Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter more flammable worldFire has been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of millennianbspshaping 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 waysWith masterly prose and a cinematic eye Vaillanttakes us on anbspriveting journeynbspthrough the intertwined histories of North Americas oil industry and the birth of climate science to thenbspunprecedented devastation wrought bynbspmodern forest fires and into lives forever changed by these disastersnbspJohn Vaillants urgent work is a book forand fromour new century of fire which has only just begun