Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world
(2023)
By:
Vaillant, John
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
363.379/VAILLANT,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781524732851, 1524732850 :, 1524732850, 9781524732851
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso
"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"--