Fire Weather

Fire Weather A True Story from a Hotter World

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE



A Pulitzer Prize Finalist
A National Book Award Finalist
A Writers' Trust Award Finalist

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize

A Guardian Book of the Year
A New York Times Book of the Year



'No book feels timelier . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down'
Cal Flyn,
The Times

'Superb and terrifying'
Katherine Rundell, Guardian

'It reads like a thriller . . . utterly compelling'
Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature

'Astounding on every page'
David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth

'A towering achievement . . . extraordinary'
Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

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 civilization. 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.

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Sceptre

Sceptre

Sceptre is the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton bringing you thought-provoking, award-winning and critically acclaimed fiction and non-fiction.

Book information

ISBN: 9781399720236
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint: Sceptre
Pub date:
DEWEY: 363.379
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 314g
Height: 165mm
Width: 397mm
Spine width: 29mm