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Between Two Fires
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen …
How the Canyon Became Grand
Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized …
Between Two Fires
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen …
Fire on Earth
Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an …
Smokechasing
"e;Painting, architecture, politics, even gardening and golf all have their critics and commentators,"e; observes Stephen Pyne. "e;Fire does not."e; Aside from news …
The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
An enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age from the author of How the Canyon Became GrandFrom a remarkable father-daughter team comes a dramatic synthesis of …
Last Lost World
An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocene’s dual character as a geologic time—and as a cultural ideaThe Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. It’s a …
Vestal Fire
Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when …
Awful Splendour
Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada’s forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to …
Fire on the Rim
In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing …
Vestal Fire
Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "e;composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist."e; At this time in …