Canada
countrybook status: Fire Weather — John Vaillant
music status: "Entre toi pi moi pi la corde de bois" — Lisa LeBlanc
book
On the Front Lines of a Burning World
John Vaillant
date read: 2025/08/02
book set in location nonfiction
What I learned: all about the bitumin mining industry in Alberta and Fort McMurray; how fur trading played a vital role in the establishment of Canada; the insane power of modern wildfires; the danger and ubiquity of the WUI (the wildlife-urban interface). This is one of those books I felt like I needed to narrate in real-time to someone else in order to fully express my surprise and interest!
music
date listened: 2022/04/01