World fire : the culture of fire on earth / Stephen J. Pyne ; with a foreword by William Cronon, and a new preface by the author.
Material type: TextSeries: Pyne, Stephen J., Cycle of fire ; | Weyerhaeuser environmental bookPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1997Edition: Pbk. editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 384 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780295805245
- 0295805242
- 304.2 22
- SD421 .P95 1997eb
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Originally published: New York : Holt, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-360) and index.
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 ; 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.
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