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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.
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.
Über den Autor
John Vaillant is a bestselling author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic, andthe 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 414 S.
ISBN-13: 9781399720236
ISBN-10: 1399720236
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Vaillant, John
Hersteller: Yen Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 187 x 131 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: John Vaillant
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.08.2024
Gewicht: 0,31 kg
Artikel-ID: 128419244

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