Burning bush

Burning bush: a fire history of Australia

by Pyne, Stephen J.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Burning bush : a fire history of Australia / Stephen J. Pyne.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1998.
  • Edition:Pbk. edition

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Notes

Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1991. Foreword and preface to this ed. copyright 1998 by the University of Washington Press.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xx, 520 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780295998831, 0295998830
  • oclc:ocn928626802
  • LC Classification:GF801
  • Dewey Decimal:304.20994

Table of Contents

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 I. The Eucalypt -- 1. The universal Australian -- 2. Unimaginable freaks of fire: Profile of a pyrophyte -- 3. Red centre: Fire regimes of old Australia -- 4. Land of contrarities -- Book II. The Aborigine -- 5. Flaming front -- 6. Firestick farmer: Profile of a pyrophile -- 7. Fires of the dreaming -- 8. Smokes by day, fires by night: Fire regimes of Aboriginal Australia -- 9. This wonderful depository of fire -- Book III. The European -- 10. Entwining fire -- 11. Reconnaissance by fire: Education of a pyrophile -- 12. Red steers and green pick -- 13. Beyond the black stump -- 14. Fire conservancy -- 15. Burning off: Fire provinces of European Australia -- 16. When the Billy boiled -- Book IV. The new Australian -- 17. The two fires -- 18. Antipodean fire: The Australian strategy -- 19. Wild bush, urban bush: Fire regimes of new Australia -- 20. Dieback -- Epilogue: Ashes to ashes.

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Subjects

Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture Agriculture itinérante -- Australie Australia Australiens (Aborigènes) -- Agriculture Écologie des feux -- Australie Fire ecology Fire ecology -- Australia Homme -- Influence sur la nature -- Aus… Natural history Natural history -- Australia Nature -- Effect of human beings on Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- … NATURE -- Weather Sciences naturelles -- Australie Shifting cultivation Shifting cultivation -- Australia SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography

Writers

Pyne, Stephen J.

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