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The last fire season : a personal and pyronatural history / Manjula Martin.

Martin, Manjula, (author.).

Summary:

"When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. ... But the landscape that Martin treasured was an ecosystem already in crisis. Wildfires fueled by climate change were growing bigger and more frequent. ... In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record, Martin ... evacuated her home in the midst of a pandemic. Both a love letter to the forests of the West and an interrogation of the colonialist practices that led to their current dilemma, [this book] follows her ... as she seeks shelter, bears witness to the devastation, and tries to better understand fire's role in the ecology of the West"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0593317157
  • ISBN: 9780593317150
  • Physical Description: x, 327 pages : maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Storm -- Sea -- Glacier -- Steam -- Hawk -- Sky -- Smoke -- Devils -- Gods -- Veils -- Owl -- Oak -- Dirt.
Subject: Martin, Manjula.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Wildfires > California, Northern.
Women authors, American > Biography.
California, Northern > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 7 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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Madison Main Library 363.37 MAR (Text) 30229101335007 Adult Nonfiction Available -