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Wild Fire is a 2006 novel by American author, Nelson DeMille.It is the fourth of DeMille's novels to feature Detective John Corey, now working as a contractor for the fictional FBI Anti-Terrorist Task Force in New York City.
Maclean started writing Young Men and Fire in his seventy-fourth year [3] and alludes frequently in the book to his age, both as a motivation and as a difficulty. The Publisher's Note prefacing the book states that "Young Men and Fire was where, near the end, all the lives he had lived would merge: the lives of a woodsman, firefighter, scholar, teacher, and storyteller."
The book details the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire which led to the evacuation of more than 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray, in the province of Alberta, Canada and the destruction of much of the town. The book was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction as well as the winner of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.
Fire on the Mountain (ISBN 0061829617) is a 1999 non-fiction book by John N. Maclean that describes the most famous wildland fire of the late 20th century. The book describes the events and aftermath of the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain on July 6, 1994, in Colorado, which took the lives of 14 firefighters.
Journalist M.R. O'Connor's latest book, "Ignition," was published by Bold Type Books on October 17, 2023. On page 99, for example, she teaches us the word "pyrocumulonimbus," or "pyroCbs," one my ...
First edition (publ. Hodder & Stoughton) Cover art by Eleanor Poore. Wildfire at Midnight is a novel by Mary Stewart which was first published in 1956. [1] Stewart herself described the book as "an attempt at something different, the classic closed-room detective story with restricted action, a biggish cast, and a closely circular plot".
The fire was a topic in the prologue to Adam Grant's book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (2021). The Mann Gulch fire was the subject of Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire, [47] which was published after his death. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction in 1992.
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