
World Fire
The Culture of Fire on Earth
Stephen J. Pyne(Author)
University of Washington Press
Published on 1. May 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-0-295-97593-1 (ISBN)
Description
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
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"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 naturre and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental, cultural, and political implications."(Booklist)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-97593-1 (9780295975931)
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Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State Universty. He is the author of many books, including Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 and Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon. Fire: A Brief History is the sixth volume in Pyne's Cycle of Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire, World Fire, Burning Bush, The Ice and Fire in America.
Content
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
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