~ Hardcover
~ Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing - 2024, and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction - 2023
~ New Release - 2023
Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast
In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration, Fire Weather warns how this was not a unique event, and instead a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world . . .
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind, Fire Weather 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 wrought by modern forest fires, and into the lives forever changed by these disasters all through the masterly prose and cinematic eye of narrative nonfiction author John Vaillant.
“An urgent warning, and an all-consuming read, Fire Weather is meticulous in its detail, both human and geological in its scale, and often shocking in its conclusions.” -- The Guardian