I ❤️ loved this book because...
On May 3, 2016, the entire population of Fort MacMurray, Alberta—an oil town of 90,000—was evacuated as a wildfire dubbed “the Beast” jumped the river, rolled through town, and laid waste to pretty much every stick of those people’s built lives, leaving incalculable grief and a dark cloak of portent over the 21st century.
Valliant’s read-it-through-your-fingers account of the fire itself, plus his dissection of the devil’s deals we’ve made with the petrochemical industry, make this book an instant classic. It’ll be talked about in 100 years. (If, that is, people are still around to talk about it.)
Okay, that’s hyperbole. But Fire Weather gets you thinking that way – in extremities. Which is arguably the way we should be thinking. Because complacency isn’t working for us all that great.
3 authors picked Fire Weather as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
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'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world' David Wallace-Wells
'No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's Fire Weather . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down' Cal Flyn, The Times
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…