{"title":"Books by George R. Stewart","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781681378473","title":"Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eStorm\u003c\/i\u003e, a breathtaking novel about a raging fire and the path of destruction and change it leaves in its wake.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, \"yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries.\" So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire--smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake. Firefighters and lookouts, forest rangers and smokejumpers—as well as animals in the forest, many of them the bewildered victims of the blaze, and all the varied trees and bushes there—are characters of this realistic story.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581728452786,"sku":"9781681378473","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681378473_4dec938d-6874-451d-8149-e5d139c6a524.jpg?v=1786024602"},{"product_id":"9781681375182","title":"Storm","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of \u003ci\u003eNames on the Land\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eStorm\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots “an incipient little whorl” on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart’s novel tracks Maria’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. \u003ci\u003eStorm\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic account of humanity’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303697953141,"sku":"9781681375182","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681375182_8b690455-78ff-46df-8b10-456b9b28969b.jpg?v=1786024545"},{"product_id":"9781857988215","title":"Earth Abides","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race.  Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313094406517,"sku":"9781857988215","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781857988215_983f0fe9-99df-4e90-8b6f-8e40559ac134.jpg?v=1786029051"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-george-r-stewart.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}