All three of JOHN VAILLANT’s award-winning, nonfiction books are narratively

riveting stories that take us directly into one of the most morally urgent and

consequential questions of our time: namely, how we negotiate the intensifying

collisions between human ambition and the natural world. The Golden Spruce told the

story of an anti-logger who took a drastic measure: felling a tree sacred to the Haida

people to raise awareness about the dangers of cutting down many more trees

elsewhere. The Tiger followed a hunt for a man-eater in the frozen wastes of the

Russian taiga. Whereas these earlier books were about finding an accommodation

with nature, Fire Weather is about what happens when none can be found. Vaillant

will talk about these and other ecological stories from his fascinating career.