**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION • 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 • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionA BEST BOOK OF...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This "travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre ... [the] conservation thriller" (Nature).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 the tiger be...

**From the author of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction winning Fire Weather**'An unbelievable tale, expertly told' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain'A superb book ' Daily Mail · 'Masterful . . . mesmerising, rangy and relentless' Sunday TelegraphA man-eating tiger is hunting villagers in the snowy forests of Far Eastern Russia.A s...

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-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Pulitzer Prize Finalist A National Book Award Finalist A Writers' Trust Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize A Guardian Book of the Year A New York Times Book of the Year'No book feels timelier . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down'Cal Flyn,

THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF FIRE WEATHER, WINNER OF THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONWINNER OF A WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2014'Absolutely spellbinding' New York Times'Will change how many people think about nature' Sebastian Junger______________________________________JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF NORTH ...

En mayo de 2016, Fort McMurray, el centro neurálgico de la industria petrolera canadiense y el mayor proveedor extranjero de Estados Unidos, fue arrasado por un colosal incendio forestal. La catástrofe, valorada en miles de millones de dólares, derritió vehículos, convirtió barrios enteros en bombas incendiarias y expulsó a 88.000 personas de sus hogares en una sola tarde. A través de esta conflagración apocalíptica —equivalente al huracán Katrina—, Vaillant advierte que no se trató de un ...

En mai 2016, le centre de l'industrie pétrolière au Canada, Fort Mc Murray (Alberta), est détruit par un gigantesque incendie. Cette catastrophe a causé des dégâts de plusieurs milliards de dollars, transformant des quartiers entiers en bombes incendiaires, faisant fondre des véhicules et fuir 90 000 personnes de leurs domiciles en un après-midi. En partant de ce récit apocalyptique, John Vaillant explore le passé et l'avenir d'un monde de plus en plus chaud, et de plus en plus inflammable...

Prix Nicolas Bouvier 2012 Hiver 1997. Iouri Trouch, responsable de l’« inspection du Tigre », est chargé d’enquêter sur la mort pour le moins troublante de Vladimir Markov. Ce chasseur expérimenté a été dévoré par un tigre de Sibérie, ses chiens massacrés, son gîte détruit. Tout porte à croire qu’il s’agit d’un meurtre prémédité. Iouri et ses hommes, suivis par John Vaillant, vont entamer une longue traque dans les contrées perdues de la Primorié, sur les traces du tigre de l’Amour qui fig...

This "extraordinary" novel of one man's border crossing reveals "a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free" (NPR).Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers' money for a mechanic and have not returned.Héctor finds a name in his friend César's phone: AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and t...

È il 3 maggio 2016 e a Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, fa molto, troppo caldo: non piove da settimane, la foresta sterminata che circonda la città è secchissima, il suolo inaridito, i venti sempre più forti. E basta una scintilla perché scoppi un incendio incontrollabile: il Bestione, come viene chiamato, divora migliaia di chilometri quadrati di terreno e genera una nube di fumo che crea un sistema meteorologico a sé, fatto di fulmini e grandine nera. Sembra avere vita propria e una volon...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRE WEATHERThe Jaguar's Children will be read for a long time to come. It is a major social novel' PHILIPP MEYER, author of The Son 'A large, ambitious novel' VANCOUVER SUN 'Unforgettable . . . a bold, heartbreaking novel' TORONTO STAR 'This is what novels can do - illuminate shadowed lives, enable u...