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Autore |
Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Burning Bush : A Fire History of Australia / / Stephen J. Pyne |
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Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 1998 |
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©1998 |
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Edizione |
[Pbk. edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (556 p.) |
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Collana |
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Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books |
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Soggetti |
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Shifting cultivation |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
Natural history |
Fire ecology |
Aboriginal Australians - Agriculture |
NATURE - Weather |
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Human Geography |
Shifting cultivation - Australia |
Natural history - Australia |
Fire ecology - Australia |
Nature - Effect of human beings on - Australia |
Electronic books. |
Australia |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1991. Foreword and preface to this ed. copyright 1998 by the University of Washington Press. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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