Stephen J. Pyne

World Fire (eBook, ePUB)

The Culture of Fire on Earth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.BooklistA 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295805245
• Artikelnr.: 44815371

Autorenporträt

Stephen J. Pyne is emeritus professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State University. He is the author of Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico (Arizona 2024), Pyrocene Park: A Journey into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park (Arizona, 2023), The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (California, 2021), and more.

Inhaltsangabe

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