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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 …
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 …
Introduction to Wildland Fire, 2nd Edition
Introduction to Wildland Fire, Second Edition provides a comprehensive resource for studying the fundamentals of fire behavior, its ecological effects, and its cultural and …
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 …