John Vaillant

Broschiertes Buch

Fire Weather

A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Beschreibung

A page-turning account of a brutal urban wildfire, and a sweeping exploration of our rapidly changing relationship with fire

Autor

John Vaillant is a bestselling author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 187mm x 131mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781399720236
• ISBN-10: 1399720236
• Artikelnr.: 69896982

Rezensionen

No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's Fire Weather, a deeply reported narrative of one of Canada's most destructive recent wildfires . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down . . . The drama of the unfolding action and the righteous anger of the polemic concealed within are engrossing Cal Flyn The Times