British Columbia in flames : stories from a blazing summer /

"Like many British Columbians in 2017, Claudia Cornwall found herself glued to the news about the disastrous wildfires across the province. Her worry was personal: her cabin at Sheridan Lake had been in the family for sixty years and was now in danger of destruction. Cornwall, a long-time write...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cornwall, Claudia Maria (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2020]
Temas:
Wildfires > British Columbia.
Wildfires > Social aspects > British Columbia.
Feux de friches > Colombie-Britannique.
Feux de friches > Aspect social > Colombie-Britannique.
Wildfires
British Columbia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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