Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World : True Story from a Hotter World /
John Vaillant.
- First edition.
- 359 Pages color illustrations, maps 24 cm
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"--.
9781524732851 9780525434245
2022044338
Forest fires--History--North America Wildfires--History--North America Climatic changes. Forest fires--Environmental aspects Climatic changes. Forest fires. Forest fires--Environmental aspects Wildfires.