Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world /
Vaillant, John,
Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world / John Vaillant. - First edition. - 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 1524732850 9780525434245 0525434240
2022044338
Forest fires--History.--North America
Wildfires--History.--North America
Climatic changes.
Forest fires--Environmental aspects.
Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world / John Vaillant. - First edition. - 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 1524732850 9780525434245 0525434240
2022044338
Forest fires--History.--North America
Wildfires--History.--North America
Climatic changes.
Forest fires--Environmental aspects.