To English poets and writers of the seventeenth century, as to their predecessors, mountains were ugly protuberances which disfigured nature and threatened the symmetry of earth; they were symbols of God's wrath. Yet, less than two centuries later the romantic poets sang in prai…
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Burning bush: a fire history of Australia
by Cronon, William, Pyne, Stephen J.
fromCycle of fire
Burning bush: a fire history of Australia
by Cronon, William, Pyne, Stephen J.
fromCycle of fire
Narrates the story of how fire came to Australia and how the aborigines used it to remake their environment.
[This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people in…
