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03995aim a2200445Ka 4500 001 31C7B0081A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230704010055 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 230127s2023 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0593740505 020 $a 9780593740507 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a SOC002010 $a SCI092000 $a SOC002010 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Vaillant, John. 245 10 $a Fire weather $h [electronic resource] : $b A true story from a hotter world. $c John Vaillant. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Books on Tape, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (15 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 14:18:05 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Alan Carlson. 520 $a A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce “Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.” —David Wallace-Wells, #1 bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world. For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways. With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us 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 lives forever changed by these disasters. John Vaillant’s urgent work is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only just begun. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of maps, images, and charts from the book. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Nature. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Science. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Sociology. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Carlson, Alan. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9350414 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6af57512-a596-4d78-a30c-f25087b92acd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/%7B6AF57512-A596-4D78-A30C-F25087B92ACD%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/%7B6AF57512-A596-4D78-A30C-F25087B92ACD%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/6af57512-a596-4d78-a30c-f25087b92acd $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230704012119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=31C7B0081A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search