Burning bush : a fire history of Australia /
Stephen J. Pyne.
- Pbk. edition.
- 1 online resource (xx, 520 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books .
- Weyerhaeuser environmental book. .
Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1991. Foreword and preface to this ed. copyright 1998 by the University of Washington Press.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-497) and index.
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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22573/ctvct7dhn JSTOR
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Australia. Fire ecology--Australia. Natural history--Australia. Shifting cultivation--Australia. Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Human Geography. NATURE--Weather. Aboriginal Australians--Agriculture. Fire ecology. Natural history. Nature--Effect of human beings on. Shifting cultivation.