Author: John Vaillant
This is a stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.
With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, author John Vaillant takes readers on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of north america’s oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation that modern forest fires wreak, and into lives forever changed by these disasters.
“Fire weather” should be required reading for anyone involved in the production or consumption of petroleum products, which is to say basically everyone, said a review on Goodreads.com.
The book does a masterful job of conveying the expanse and emotion of fire, weather, and the impacts we are seeing related to climate change.
The book starts off well enough using wild fire facts and global warming. Vaillant provides a detailed and empathetic narrative that really connected with readers.
