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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
Category: Nature
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
Category: Fiction
On a bleak winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence: he destroyed the legendary Golden Spruce of the Queen Charlotte Islands. With its rich colours, towering height and luminous needles, the tree was a scientific marvel, beloved by th ...Show more
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
Category: Nature
A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth. When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-t ...Show more
The Jaguar's Children by John Vaillant
Category: Fiction
Extraordinary The horrors of a single passage over the border blossom into a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free. NPR [A] heartbreaker Wrenching with a voice fresh and plangent enough to disarm resistance. "Boston Globe" Fearless. "Globe and Mail" Hec ...Show more
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Category: Biography
It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. To the horrified astonishment of a team of hunters, it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta. Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes again, ...Show more
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Category: Nature | Series: Vintage Departures
A gripping story of man pitted against nature's most fearsome and efficient predator. Outside a remote village in Russia's Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down ...Show more
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