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Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World (Paperback)
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Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World (Paperback)
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List price R548
Loot Price R452
Discovery Miles 4 520
You Save R96 (18%)
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'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic
chroniclers of the natural world' David Wallace-Wells 'A towering
achievement; an immense work of research, reflection and
imagination' Robert Macfarlane 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.
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