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Books in the Weyerhaueser Cycle of Fire series

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  • - A Brief History
    by Stephen J. Pyne
    £19.49 - 78.49

  • - The Culture of Fire on Earth
    by Stephen J. Pyne
    £20.99

    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 fire control, Pyne challenges our concepts of nature and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental, cultural, and political implications.BooklistA sweeping historical treatise that examines our worlds love/hate relationship with conflagration. His engrossing ideas leave bright embers in the memory.Outside

  • - An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
    by Stephen J. Pyne
    £80.99

  • - A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon
    by Stephen J. Pyne
    £22.49

    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 philosophy of fire management.

  • - A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
    by Stephen J. Pyne
    £28.99

    When first published in 1982, this work was one of the most remarkable scholarly projects ever undertaken by an America historian: a systematic rewriting of U.S. history that put fire at the center of the narrative. From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts

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