Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World : True Story from a Hotter World / John Vaillant.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, June 06, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 359 Pages color illustrations, maps 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
  • Any audience
ISBN:
  • 9781524732851
  • 9780525434245
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • SD421.34.N67 V35 2023
Contents:
Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning.
Summary: "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.
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A Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf.

new book 2024 spring.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401) and index.

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"--. Provided by publisher.

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