Awful splendour [[electronic resource] ] : a fire history of Canada / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
| Awful splendour [[electronic resource] ] : a fire history of Canada / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by Graeme Wynn |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | xxix, 549 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina | 577.2/40971 |
| Collana | Nature, history, society |
| Soggetto topico |
Wildfires - Canada - History
Fires - Canada - History Fire ecology - Canada - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-59357-9
9786612593574 0-7748-5585-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454604403321 |
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Awful splendour : a fire history of Canada / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
| Awful splendour : a fire history of Canada / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by Graeme Wynn |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxix, 549 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 577.2/40971 |
| Collana | Nature, history, society |
| Soggetto topico |
Wildfires - Canada - History
Fires - Canada - History Fire ecology - Canada - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-59357-9
9786612593574 0-7748-5585-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Author's Note -- White Canada -- Torch -- Kindling -- Fire Rings of Indigenous Canada -- Tongues of Fire: Black Spruce and High Plains -- Conflagration and Complex -- Axe -- Creating Fuel -- Fire Frontiers of Imperial Canada -- With Fire in Their Eyes: Gabriel Sagard and Henry Hind -- "Burning Most Furiously" -- Engine -- Containing Combustion -- Reconnaissance by Fire: Robert Bell and Bernhard Fernow -- Fire Provinces of Industrial Canada -- Internal Combustions -- Green Canada -- Continental Drift and Global Warming -- Fire Geography of Green Canada -- Slow Burns, Fast Flames -- Fire and Ice -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782702703321 |
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Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America / / Stephen J. Pyne
| Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America / / Stephen J. Pyne |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuczon, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 634.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Forest fires - United States - Prevention and control - History
Fire ecology - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8165-3219-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Spark -- 2. Hotline -- 3. Holding -- 4. Slopover -- 5. Blowup -- 6. Burning out. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466928003321 |
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| Tuczon, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 | ||
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Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America / / Stephen J. Pyne
| Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America / / Stephen J. Pyne |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuczon, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 634.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Forest fires - United States - Prevention and control - History
Fire ecology - United States |
| ISBN | 0-8165-3219-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Spark -- 2. Hotline -- 3. Holding -- 4. Slopover -- 5. Blowup -- 6. Burning out. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796115803321 |
Pyne Stephen J. <1949->
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| Tuczon, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America / / Stephen J. Pyne
| Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America / / Stephen J. Pyne |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuczon, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 634.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Forest fires - United States - Prevention and control - History
Fire ecology - United States |
| ISBN | 0-8165-3219-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Spark -- 2. Hotline -- 3. Holding -- 4. Slopover -- 5. Blowup -- 6. Burning out. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827934703321 |
Pyne Stephen J. <1949->
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Burning Bush : A Fire History of Australia / / Stephen J. Pyne
| Burning Bush : A Fire History of Australia / / Stephen J. Pyne |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Edizione | [Pbk. edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (556 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.370994 |
| Collana | Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-295-99883-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 Aboriginal Australia -- 9. This wonderful depository of fire -- Book III. The European -- 10. Entwining fire -- 11. Reconnaissance by fire: Education of a pyrophile -- 12. Red steers and green pick -- 13. Beyond the black stump -- 14. Fire conservancy -- 15. Burning off: Fire provinces of European Australia -- 16. When the Billy boiled -- Book IV. The new Australian -- 17. The two fires -- 18. Antipodean fire: The Australian strategy -- 19. Wild bush, urban bush: Fire regimes of new Australia -- 20. Dieback -- Epilogue: Ashes to ashes. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461016403321 |
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Fire : a brief history / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon
| Fire : a brief history / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Disciplina | 541.361 |
| Collana |
Cycle of fire
Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
| Soggetto topico | Fire - History |
| ISBN | 0-295-74619-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793783303321 |
Pyne Stephen J. <1949->
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| Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2019 | ||
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Fire : a brief history / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon
| Fire : a brief history / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Disciplina | 541.361 |
| Collana |
Cycle of fire
Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
| Soggetto topico | Fire - History |
| ISBN | 0-295-74619-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828943903321 |
Pyne Stephen J. <1949->
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| Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2019 | ||
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Fire [[electronic resource] ] : a brief history / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon
| Fire [[electronic resource] ] : a brief history / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | xvii, 204 p. : ill., map |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CrononWilliam |
| Collana |
Cycle of fire
Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
| Soggetto topico | Fire - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-295-80327-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457798103321 |
Pyne Stephen J. <1949->
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| Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2001 | ||
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Fire [[electronic resource] ] : a brief history / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon
| Fire [[electronic resource] ] : a brief history / / Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by William Cronon |
| Autore | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | xvii, 204 p. : ill., map |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CrononWilliam |
| Collana |
Cycle of fire
Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
| Soggetto topico | Fire - History |
| ISBN | 0-295-80327-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781989603321 |
Pyne Stephen J. <1949->
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| Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2001 | ||
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