Fire weather

a true story from a hotter world

In May 2016, a Canadian oil town was overrun by wildfire, turning entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and driving 90,000 people from their homes. This book explores our relationship with fire, an energy source that has been our partner in evolution for hundreds of millennia, shaping our culture and civilization. Now, in our age of intensifying climate change, its destructive power has been unleashed in ways previously unimaginable.

Book details


Physical description: 19x12cm beige and black cover 432pp

Publisher: Sceptre

Place of publication: London, England

ISBN: 9781399720236

Classification: E702 -

Countries: Canada -

Subjects: Fires and explosions, Climate change, Fire fighting