World fire : the culture of fire on earth
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World fire : the culture of fire on earth
（Weyerhaeuser environmental books, . Cycle of fire）
University of Washington Press, 1997
- : pbk
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Originally published: New York : Holt, 1995
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
Table of Contents
- Foreword by William Cronon Preface to the 1997 Paperback Edition 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 Attac: The U.S. Forest Service Fights Fire -- Coldtrailing Wilderness Fire -- Vestal Fires and Virgin Lands -- The SUmmer We Let Wild Fire Loose Intermix Fire -- The Fire This Time -- Nouvelle Southwest MOP-UP Consumed by Either Fire or Fire AFTER THE LAST SMOKE Flame and Fortune Notes and Additional Reading Index Illustration sources and credits
by "Nielsen BookData"