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World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth - Pyne, Stephen J
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Back in Print World 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 ...

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World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth 1997, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295975931

Trade paperback

World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth 1995, Henry Holt & Company, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780805032475

Hardcover