{"product_id":"9780735273177","title":"Fire Weather","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • ONE OF \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e’ TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning account of the colossal wildfire at Fort McMurray, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Spruce\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003e• \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e• \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e• CBC • \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian \u003c\/i\u003e• \u003ci\u003eAir Mail Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eSlate \u003c\/i\u003e• NPR • \u003ci\u003eToronto Star \u003c\/i\u003e• \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e• \u003ci\u003eThe Times • Orion Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's petroleum industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.\u003cbr\u003e    For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways.\u003cbr\u003e    With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America's oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters. John Vaillant's urgent work is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only just begun.","brand":"John Vaillant (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Canada |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-05-07","offer_id":45160687632639,"sku":"9780735273177","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_49b3a2de-cc3a-4c91-9203-5f580053d2e4.jpg?v=1712866704","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780735273177","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}