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Fire: A Brief History [Australian Edition] by Stephen J Pyne
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 978142236964
Book Condition: Very Good
Author: Stephen J Pyne
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages: 217 pages
Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps on inside pages. Partial date due slip now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Body text and binding are still very good.
Australian edition.
What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel the looking-glass transition from an ice world to a fire world more fully and suddenly than elsewhere.
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J Pyne, named by Science magazine as âthe world's leading authority on the history of fire, explores the surprising dynamics of fire before humans, fire and human origins, aboriginal economies of hunting and foraging, agricultural and pastoral uses of fire, fire ceremonies, fire as an idea and a technology, and industrial fire.
With this revised and expanded edition, Pyne looks to the future of fire as an informing presence on Earth. A new chapter explores the importance of fire in the twenty-first century, with special attention to its role in the Anthropocene, or what he posits might equally be called the Pyrocene.
Includes a new preface about Australia and our ever-expanding, catastrophic fire season.
Fire: A Brief History [Australian Edition] by Stephen J Pyne
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