The last fire season : a personal and pyronatural history
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, 2024.
Edition
First edition.
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Baca Grande Public Library - NONFICTION | 363.3 MARTI | On Shelf | |
Lyons Library - NONFICTION | 363.37 MAR | On Shelf | |
Ruby Sisson Library - NONFICTION | 920 MAR, M | On Shelf | |
West Custer County Library District - NONFICTION | 363.37 MARTIN | Checked Out | June 7, 2024 |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
California, Northern.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
Martin, Manjula.
Political science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE/ Law Enforcement.
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate ChangêNATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection̂NATURE / Ecology
Wildfires -- California, Northern.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
California, Northern.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
Martin, Manjula.
Political science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE/ Law Enforcement.
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate ChangêNATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection̂NATURE / Ecology
Wildfires -- California, Northern.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, 2024.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-327)
Description
"When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. She was also seeking refuge from a health crisis that left her with chronic pain, and found a sense of healing through tending her garden beneath the redwoods of Sonoma County. But the landscape that Martin treasured was an ecosystem already in crisis. Wildfires fueled by climate change were growing bigger and more frequent: each autumn, her garden filled with smoke and ash, and the local firehouse siren wailed deep into the night. In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record, Martin, along with thousands of other Californians, evacuated her home in the midst of a pandemic. Both a love letter to the forests of the West and an interrogation of the colonialist practices that led to their current dilemma, The Last Fire Season, follows her from the oaky hills of Sonoma County to the redwood forests of coastal Santa Cruz, to the pines and peaks of the Sierra Nevada, as she seeks shelter, bears witness to the devastation, and tries to better understand fire’s role in the ecology of the West. As Martin seeks a way to navigate the daily experience of living in a damaged body on a damaged planet, she comes to question her own assumptions about nature and the complicated connections between people and the land on which we live." --publisher's website.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Martin, M. (2024). The last fire season: a personal and pyronatural history (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Martin, Manjula. 2024. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Martin, Manjula. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History Pantheon Books, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Martin, Manjula. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History First edition., Pantheon Books, 2024.
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