Fire Nature and Culture

Name: Fire Nature and Culture
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ISBN: 9781780230467

ISBN-10: 178023046X

ISBN-13: 9781780230467

Edition: 2012

Authors: Stephen J. Pyne

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For over 400 million years, fire has been an integral force on our planet. It can be as innocent as a bonfire or as destructive and lethal as a wildfire. Human history is rife with fires that have leveled cities—the Fire of Moscow in 1812 that destroyed seventy-five percent of the city, the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 that took down 17,000 buildings, and the fire that obliterated San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake are just a few. Fire is a force of nature that can consume everything in its wake, and yet it also has tremendous powers of cleansing and renewal. At the end of the day, we can’t live without it. InFire, Stephen J. Pyne offers a concise history of fire and its use by humanity,…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 207
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor at Arizona State University. The author of ten acclaimed books on environmental history, he won the 1995 "Los Angeles Times'" Robert Kirsch Award for his career contribution to arts & letters. He lives in Glendale, Arizona.