Join us at Patagonia Cambridge to hear author and former wildland firefighter Jordan Thomas discuss his debut book, When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World.Â
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The book follows Thomas through a brutal fire season as he serves on elite wildlands firefighting crew, the Los Padres Hotshots, interweaving academic research into the factors exacerbating California's already extreme fire seasons. The result is an insightful and captivating work of narrative nonfiction.Â
In addition to a structured discussion about the book, there will be time for audience questions. Harvard Bookstore will be on site to sell books for anyone who doesn't already have one.Â
Per usual, we'll have food and drinks as well. The latter for donation to nonprofit Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance. Â
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Jordan Thomas is a climate-change ethnographer and narrative nonfiction author with a background in critical social theory. He previously served as a wildland firefighter on the Los Padres Hotshot crew. His public-facing work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Review of Books, The Drift, and elsewhere. His debut book, When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World, traces the historical, ecological, and sociological factors fueling California’s increasingly catastrophic wildfires, woven through the story of one brutal fire season on a hotshot crew.
