World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth

By Stephen J. Pyne

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295975938
• ISBN13: 9780295975931
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

seminal overview of the anthroprogenic use of fire by man.

This book caused me to think of the totality of the sciences blindly lurching forward to stuydy the effects of 40,000 years of unrestrained fire use while that use changes.