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Back in Print World 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
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Index
Aboriginal fire, 11, 13, 16, 225, 258, 291, 303–8, 322
Aborigines
America, 183, 284, 285, 286
Absence of fire, 79
Academy of Sciences (Russia), 143
Accidental fire, 39, 300
Adams, Arthur, 133
Adirondack Forest Preserve, 185–86, 257
Aeneas, 96
Aerial burning (Australia), 41, 42
Aerial fire control, 137, 142, 145, 146, 200–1
Aeschylus, 14, 255
Afforestation, 121, 122, 123–24, 128, 276–77
Africa, 39, 144, 147, 215
Afromontane forest, 52
Agency for International Development (AID), 215
Agni (god of fire), 153–54
Agricultural burning/fire, 23, 308–10, 322
Brazil, 73
Iberia, 112–13, 117
India, 168
Siberia, 133
Sweden, 85
U.S., 68, 183, 184
Agricultural subsidies, 102, 106, 108, 109, 120
Agriculture, 11, 55, 312–13
Africa, 51, 54
Brazil, 64, 65–66
Crete, 108
Iberia, 112, 113–14, 117–18, 119–20, 123
India, 152, 157, 158
livestock in/and, 99, 100
manure-based, 86
and pastoralism, 115
sedentary, 88, 117
Sweden, 81–84, 85, 86, 92
U.S., 221, 224–25, 287
Agronomy/agronomists, 86, 88, 157
classical, 112–13
European, 50, 51, 55, 59, 161, 166
Air as index of environmental health, 320, 323
Air pollution, 325
Air quality, 68, 293
...Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the 1997 Paperback Edition
- Smoke Report
- Size-Up
- Hotspotting
- Control
- Mop-Up
- After the Last Smoke
- Notes and Additional Reading
- Index
- Illustration Sources and Credits