Research Catalog

Title

Burning bush : a fire history of Australia / Stephen J. Pyne.

Author

Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Holt, ©1991.

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Details

Description

xiv, 520 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

Narrates the story of how fire came to Australia and how the aborigines used it to remake their environment.

Subject

• Nature > Effect of human beings on > Australia
• Fire ecology > Australia
• Natural history > Australia
• Shifting cultivation > Australia
• Aboriginal Australians > Agriculture
• Aboriginal Australians > Agriculture
• Fire ecology
• Natural history
• Nature > Effect of human beings on
• Shifting cultivation
• Geschichte
• Feuer
• Iwi taketake
• Australia
• Australien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Book I: The eucalypt 1. The universal Australia -- 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 -- 3. 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 pyrofile -- 12. Red steers and green pick -- 13. Beyond the black stump -- 14. Fire conservancy -- 15. Burning off: fire provences 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.

ISBN

• 0805014721
• 9780805014723

LCCN

90025116

OCLC

• ocm22861817
• 22861817
• SCSB-1907000

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library