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Informationen zum Autor 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 Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire , World Fire , Burning Bush , The Ice and Fire in America . Klappentext World Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by William Cronon Preface to the 1997 Paperback Edition SMOKE REPORT The New World Order on Fire SIZE-UP Firestick History; or! How to Set the World on Fire HOTSPOTTING Fire Flume (Australia) Veld Fire (South Africa) Queimada Para Limpeza (Brazil) Svedjebruk (Sweden) Greek Fire (Greece) La Nueva Reconquista (Iberia) Red Skies of Irkutsk (Russia) Nataraja (India) White Darkness (Antarctica) CONTROL American Fire - Initial Attac: The U.S. Forest Service Fights Fire - Coldtrailing Wilderness Fire - Vestal Fires and Virgin Lands - The SUmmer We Let Wild Fire Loose Intermix Fire - The Fire This Time - Nouvelle Southwest MOP-UP Consumed by Either Fire or Fire AFTER THE LAST SMOKE Flame and Fortune Notes and Additional Reading Index Illustration sources and credits
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Foreword by William Cronon
Preface to the 1997 Paperback Edition
SMOKE REPORT
The New World Order on Fire
SIZE-UP
Firestick History; or, How to Set the World on Fire
HOTSPOTTING
Fire Flume (Australia)
Veld Fire (South Africa)
Queimada Para Limpeza (Brazil)
Svedjebruk (Sweden)
Greek Fire (Greece)
La Nueva Reconquista (Iberia)
Red Skies of Irkutsk (Russia)
Nataraja (India)
White Darkness (Antarctica)
CONTROL
American Fire
-- Initial Attac: The U.S. Forest Service Fights Fire
-- Coldtrailing
Wilderness Fire
-- Vestal Fires and Virgin Lands
-- The SUmmer We Let Wild Fire Loose
Intermix Fire
-- The Fire This Time
-- Nouvelle Southwest
MOP-UP
Consumed by Either Fire or Fire
AFTER THE LAST SMOKE
Flame and Fortune
Notes and Additional Reading
Index
Illustration sources and credits
Info autore
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 Fire, which also includes
Vestal Fire,
World Fire,
Burning Bush,
The Ice and
Fire in America.
