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Burning Bush
Stephen J. Pyne
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Description for Burning Bush
Paperback. Author Stephen Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers. "Stephen Pyne is a great storyteller, and here he weaves as fine a tale as one could imagine about a phenomenon as seemingly ordinary as fire".--NATURAL HISTORY. A Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book. 14 photos. Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 548 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: JKSW2; RNF; TNKF; TVR; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
548
Condition
New
Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Number of Pages
555
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295976778
SKU
V9780295976778
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Ref
99-31
About Stephen J. Pyne
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Burning Bush
"This is a phenomenal piece of research and writing, an epic that moves from prehistoric geology to contemporary firefighting theory and draws on an array of natural and social sciences to do so. This is geographical writing at its best and most exhaustive and will intrigue anyone interested in Australia, the environment or human civilization."
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