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World fire : the culture of fire on earth / Stephen J. Pyne ; with a foreword by William Cronon, and a new preface by the author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author.
- Cronon, William, author of introduction, etc.
- Series:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Cycle of fire.
- Cycle of Fire
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wildfires.
- Fires.
- Fire ecology.
- Wildfires--Prevention and control.
- Fire prevention.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, Washington ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Iberia, Russia, and India and then ponders Antarctica, the land without fire. As he examines changing techniques for and attitudes toward fire control, Pyne challenges our concepts of nature and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental, cultural, and political implications.”-Booklist“A sweeping historical treatise that examines our world’s love/hate relationship with conflagration. His engrossing ideas leave bright embers in the memory.”-Outside
- Contents:
- Smoke report
- The new world order on fire
- Size-up
- Firestick history : or, How to set the world on fire
- Hotspotting
- Fire flume (Australia)
- Veld fire (South Africa)
- Queimada Para Limpeza (Brazil)
- Svedjebruk (Sweden)
- Greek fire (Greece)
- La Nueva Reconquista (Iberia)
- Red skies of Irkutsk (Russia)
- Nataraja (India)
- White darkness (Antarctica)
- Control
- American fire
- Initial attack : the U.S. Forest Service fights fire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-360) ans index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295805245
- 0295805242
- OCLC:
- 882553617
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