EAN: 9781399720205

FIRE WEATHER - JOHN VAILLANT KARTONIERT (TB)

*WINNER of the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* ***AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** * A
Pulitzer Prize Finalist * A National Book Award Finalist * A Writers' Trust Award Finalist *
'No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's Fire Weather . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare
that is impossible to put down' Cal Flyn  The Times 'Superb and terrifying . . . it reads with
pace and flair and a rich  furious clarity' Katherine Rundell  author of Super-Infinite A
gripping account of this century's most intense urban fire  and a panoramic exploration of the
rapidly changing relationship between humanity and fire's fierce energy. In May 2016  Fort
McMurray  Alberta  the hub of Canada's oil industry  was overrun by wildfire. The
multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and drove 90 000
people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the story of this apocalyptic
conflagration  John Vaillant explores the past and the future of our ever-hotter  more
flammable world. For hundreds of millennia  fire has been a partner in our evolution  shaping
culture and civilization. Yet in our age of intensifying climate change  we are seeing its
destructive power unleashed in ways never before witnessed by human beings. With masterly prose
and cinematic style  Vaillant delves into the intertwined histories of the oil industry and
climate science  the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern wildfires  and the lives
forever changed by these disasters. Fire Weather is urgent reading for our new century of fire.
'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-Wells  author of The Uninhabitable Earth 'It reads like a
thriller . . . I could not put it down' Andrea Wulf  author of The Invention of Nature

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