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Fire Weather
A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Pulitzer Prize Finalist A National Book Award Finalist A Writers' Trust Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize 2024 'No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's Fire Weather . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down' -...
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A page-turning account of a brutal urban wildfire, and a sweeping exploration of our rapidly changing relationship with fire
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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist A National Book Award Finalist A Writers' Trust Award Finalist
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize 2024
'No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's Fire Weather . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down' - Cal Flyn, The Times
In May 2016, a Canadian oil town was overrun by wildfire, turning entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and driving 90,000 people from their homes.
Through the gripping story of this apocalyptic conflagration, John Vaillant explores our relationship with fire, an energy source that has been our partner in evolution for hundreds of millennia, shaping our culture and civilisation. Now, in our age of intensifying climate change, its destructive power has been unleashed in ways previously unimaginable.
Fire Weather is an astounding account of this century's most intense urban fire, and an urgent examination of humanity's future in an ever-hotter, more flammable world.
'A towering achievement; an immense work of research, reflection and imagination' - Robert Macfarlane 'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world' - David Wallace-WellsBook Details
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ISBN: 9781399720236
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 August 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 34.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 432
About the Author
John Vaillant is a bestselling author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Guardian, among others. His first book, The Golden Spruce, won the Canadian Governor General's Award for non-fiction. His second, The Tiger, was an international bestseller and was translated into sixteen languages, and The Jaguar's Children, his first work of fiction, was a finalist for the Canadian Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent book, Fire Weather, won the Baillie Gifford Prize and Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, and was a finalist the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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