Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
Author
John Vaillant
Language
English
Publisher
Knopf[1]
Publication date
2023
Pages
432
ISBN
9781524732851
Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World is a 2023 book by Canadian-American journalist John Vaillant published by Knopf, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. The book details the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire which led to the evacuation of more than 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray, in the province of Alberta, Canada and the destruction of much of the town.
The book was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction as well as the winner of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.[2][3] The book was also selected as one of the notable books of 2023 by The New York Times and one of the must-read books of 2023 by Time.[4][5]
^"Fire Weather by John Vaillant: 9780525434245 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
^"Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World". National Book Foundation.
^"Fire Weather by John Vaillant". Baillie Gifford Prize.
^Staff, The New York Times Books (November 21, 2023). "100 Notable Books of 2023". The New York Times.
^"'Fire Weather' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2023". Time. November 14, 2023.
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