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Autore: | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
Titolo: | Burning Bush : A Fire History of Australia / / Stephen J. Pyne |
Pubblicazione: | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 1998 |
©1998 | |
Edizione: | Pbk. edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (556 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.370994 |
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 geografico: | Australia |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1991. Foreword and preface to this ed. copyright 1998 by the University of Washington Press. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Burning bush |
ISBN: | 0-295-99883-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461016403321 |
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