Fire Weather av John Vaillant

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<p><b>***AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER***<br><br>''No book feels timelier than John Vaillant''s <i>Fire Weather</i> . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down'' Cal Flyn, <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world'' David Wallace-Wells</b><b><br><br>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.</b><br><br>In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada''s oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and drove 90,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the story of this apocalyptic conflagration, John Vaillant explores the past and the future of our ever-hotter, more flammable world.<br><br>For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolutio