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.
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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
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
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