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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction べいりー・ぎふぉーど・ぷらいず

Edition 25 (2023)

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Winners

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John Vaillant Winner

Fire Weather is reportage centered on the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, tracing the links between the oil industry, climate change, and the relationship between fire and human society. By putting fire itself at the center, it layers the history behind the disaster with the pressures of the present.

The wildfire emerges as a knot tying together city, industry, and climate.

432 pages
wildfireclimate changeoil industryreportagedisaster history