Burning Bush

A Fire History of Australia

Stephen J. Pyne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

555 Seiten

1998
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-97677-8 (ISBN)

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Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies.”—New York Times Book Review

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.

Foreword by William Cronon

Preface to the 1998 Paperback Edition

Preface to the Original Edition: Firestick History

Map of Australia

Map of Australia's Vegetation

Prologue: Dust to Dust

BOOK ONE: THE EUCALYPT

The Universal Australian

Unemaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a Pyrophyte

Red Centre: Fire Regimes of Old Australia

Land of Contraries

BOOK TWO: THE ABORIGINE

Flaming Front

Fierstick Farmer: Profile of a Pyrophile

Fires of the Dreaming

Smokes by Day, Fires by Night: Fire Regimes of Aboriginal Australia

This Wonderful Depository of Fire

BOOK THREE: THE EUROPEAN

Entwining Fire

Reconnaissance by Fire: Education of a Pyrophile

Red Steer and Green Pick

Beyond the Black Stump

Fire Conservancy

Burning Off: Fire Provinces of European Australia

When the Billy Boiled

BOOK FOUR: THE NEW AUSTRALIAN

The Two Fires

Antipodean Fire: The Australian Strategy

Wild Bush, Urban Bush: Fire Regimes in New Australia

Epilogue: Ashes to Ashes

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.1998
Reihe/Serie	Weyerhaueser Cycle of Fire
Zusatzinfo	15 illus.
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	862 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-295-97677-2 / 0295976772
ISBN-13	978-0-295-97677-8 / 9780295976778
Zustand	Neuware