Burning bush : a fire history of Australia /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1998.
Edición:Pbk. edition.
Colección:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Temas:
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Australia.
Fire ecology > Australia.
Natural history > Australia.
Shifting cultivation > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > Agriculture.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Australie.
Écologie des feux > Australie.
Sciences naturelles > Australie.
Agriculture itinérante > Australie.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Agriculture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
NATURE > Weather.
Aboriginal Australians > Agriculture
Fire ecology
Natural history
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Shifting cultivation
Australia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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