British Columbia in flames : stories from a blazing summer / / Claudia Cornwall
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| Autore: |
Cornwall Claudia Maria
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| Titolo: |
British Columbia in flames : stories from a blazing summer / / Claudia Cornwall
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| Pubblicazione: | Madeira Park, BC : , : Harbour Publishing, , [2020] |
| ©2020 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 363.37 |
| Soggetto topico: | Wildfires |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Map -- Introduction: In for one hell of a ride -- Sheridan Lake -- Chapter 1: We can't go south -- we can't go north -- Ashcroft -- Chapter 2: Get out, it's coming! -- Cache Creek -- Chapter 3: What's the name of your dentist? -- Chapter 4: We got out every hose and pump we had -- 16 Mile House -- Chapter 5: It's scary shit!! -- 100 Mile House -- Chapter 6: An empty house in an empty town -- Lac La Hache -- Chapter 7: Like a noose -- Quesnel -- Chapter 8: Five- or six-foot waves breaking over the top of our canoe -- Chapter 9: Prepare for no one and nothing to come -- Williams Lake -- Chapter 10: I can't answer messages fast enough -- Chapter 11: Evacuate, evacuate! -- Chapter 12: Go Sam, Go -- Hanceville-Riske Creek -- Chapter 13: Phenomenal heart come out -- Chapter 14: The fire draws everything toward it -- Chapter 15: But it came, it came, it came, it came, it came -- Chapter 16: You're going to die, you need to get out of here! -- Clinton -- Chapter 17: Oh fire just take me -- Chapter 18: I had to go over the mountain -- Chapter 19: Our neighbours were everything to us -- Pressy Lake-70 Mile House-Green Lake -- Chapter 20: What the hell was wrong with us? -- Chapter 21: Will you pick up Bear? -- Chapter 22: I could wrap a wet towel around my head, go out into the lake -- Sheridan Lake -- Chapter 23: It come in here with a vengeance -- Chapter 24: You get used to riding with flames -- Chapter 25: Let us conspire with the forests -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Index -- Photos. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A moving personal and journalistic account of wildfire season in BC. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | British Columbia in flames |
| ISBN: | 1-55017-895-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910794315403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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