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  • Undying Fire

    A Fire History of Europe

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Cycle of Fire
    Europe’s unquenchable flames, from hearth to Pyrocene, reveal a civilization’s combustible coreThis work offers a sweeping history of Europe told through flame—and a history of fire refracted through Europe’s landscapes, sciences, and empires. Drawing on and substantially updating his classic Vestal Fire, Stephen J. Pyne’s incisive new volume follows fire from Iceland’s oceanic fringes to the ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • The Still-Burning Bush

    updated edition

    by Stephen Pyne ...
    Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch.Australia is one of the world’s fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on the national culture. Over the past two decades, bushfires have reasserted themselves as an environmental, social, and political presence. And now they dominate the national ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Burning Bush

    A Fire History of Australia

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Cycle of Fire
    Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies.”—New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Fire in America

    A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Cycle of Fire
    From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Voyager

    Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    A brilliant new account of the Voyager space program-its history, scientific impact, and cultural legacyLaunched in 1977, the two unmanned Voyager spacecraft have completed their Grand Tour to the four outer planets, and they are now on course to become the first man-made objects to exit our solar system. To many, this remarkable achievement is the culmination of a golden age of American planetary ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Burning Bush

    A Fire History of Australia

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    From the time of the continent's formation tens of millions of years ago as the Godwana twin of Antarctica, Australia has been dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice. Now Stephen Pyne, one of our foremost environmental historians, proposes a major reinterpretation of the Australian experience by using fire and Australia to explain one another. He narrates the story of how fire came ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Smokechasing

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    "Painting, architecture, politics, even gardening and golf—all have their critics and commentators," observes Stephen Pyne. "Fire does not." Aside from news reports on fire disasters, most writing about fire appears in government reports and scientific papers—and in journalism that has more in common with the sports page than the editorial page.Smokechasing presents commentaries by one of America ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Fire

    Nature and Culture

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    Series series Earth
    Fire has been an integral feature of our planet for over 400 million years. It has defined human culture from the beginning; it is something without which we cannot survive. While among the most destructive forces on Earth, fire displays equally tremendous powers of cleansing and renewal.Whether hunting, foraging, farming, herding, building towns or managing nature reserves, fire has been at the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Between Two Fires

    A Fire History of Contemporary America

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    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 J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Tending Fire

    Coping With America's Wildland Fires

    by Stephen Pyne ...
    The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after years of discussion of fire policy, are some of America's most spectacular conflagrations arising now, and often not in a remote wilderness but ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Fire

    A Brief History

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Cycle of Fire
    Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the surprising dynamics of fire before humans, fire and human origins, aboriginal economies of hunting and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • World Fire

    The Culture of Fire on Earth

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Cycle of Fire
    Back in PrintWorld 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 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD