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World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth (Cycle of Fire) - Softcover

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Pyne, Stephen J.

 
9780295975931: World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth (Cycle of Fire)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0295975938 ISBN 13: 9780295975931
Verlag: University of Washington Press, 1997

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Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Iberia, Russia, and India and then ponders Antarctica, the land without fire. As he examines changing techniques for and attitudes toward fire control, Pyne challenges our concepts of nature and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental, cultural, and political implications.”—Booklist“A sweeping historical treatise that examines our world’s love/hate relationship with conflagration. His engrossing ideas leave bright embers in the memory.”—Outside

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Stephen J. Pyne is emeritus professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State University. He is the author of Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico (Arizona 2024), Pyrocene Park: A Journey into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park (Arizona, 2023), The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (California, 2021), and more.

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Back in Print-- World Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseperable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet. "Stephen J. Pyne writes about fire as if he were on fire, with searing, consuming heat and light. When he looks at fire he sees not biological catastrophe but social illumination and natural renewal...This book will change the way you view fire--and the way you see us routinely fighting it." --Seattle Times-

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Back in Print-- World Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseperable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet. "Stephen J. Pyne writes about fire as if he were on fire, with searing, consuming heat and light. When he looks at fire he sees not biological catastrophe but social illumination and natural renewal...This book will change the way you view fire--and the way you see us routinely fighting it." --Seattle Times-

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Verlag
University of Washington Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0295975938
ISBN 13 
9780295975931
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
408
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