British Columbia in flames : stories from a blazing summer / Claudia Cornwall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornwall, Claudia Maria, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildfires.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

A moving personal and journalistic account of wildfire season in BC.

Contents:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-55017-895-4

OCLC:

1139317722