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Narrating Mexico's evolution of fire through five eras--pre-human, pre-Hispanic, colonial, industrializing (1880-1980), and contemporary (1980-2015)--this volume relies on the myth of the "five suns" that the Aztecs used to characterize their history. It completes a North American trilogy of fire histories that also includes the United States and Canada.

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The world is on fire, and no one sees that—or writes about it—better than Stephen Pyne. This is a brilliant guidebook to that future."—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth "The Pyrocene is a lambent meditation on the many meanings of fire: geological, environmental, agricultural, nutritional, metallurgical, metaphorical. Pyne makes the illuminating case that fire, our first domesticated beast, tamed and suppressed for much of...

The world is on fire, and no one sees that—or writes about it—better than Stephen Pyne. This is a brilliant guidebook to that future."—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth "The Pyrocene is a lambent meditation on the many meanings of fire: geological, environmental, agricultural, nutritional, metallurgical, metaphorical. Pyne makes the illuminating case that fire, our first domesticated beast, tamed and suppressed for much of...

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Stephen J. Pyne is professor emeritus at Arizona State University. He spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots fire crew and three seasons writing fire plans for the National Park Service. He is author of the critically acclaimed Cycle of Fire books.

Stephen J. Pyne is professor emeritus at Arizona State University. He spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots fire crew and three seasons writing fire plans for the National Park Service. He is author of the critically acclaimed Cycle of Fire books.

Repeatedly, if paradoxically, the American Northeast has led national developments in fire. In this new book in the To the Last Smoke series, renowned fire expert Stephen Pyne narrates this history and explains how fire is returning to a place not usually thought of in America's fire scene.

America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the American national narrative and may now be returning to prominence.

The latest in the To the Last Smoke series, this book explores how singular moments create prisms by which to understand fire. In this collection of essays, Stephen J. Pyne offers his reflections on national and global wildland fire management, muses on the next wave of fire research, explains the history of one of the most famous fire paintings of all time, and distils the long saga of fire on Earth.

Style and Story is for those who wish to craft nonfiction texts that do more than simply relay facts and arguments. Stephen J. Pyne explains how writers can employ literary tools and strategies to strengthen their work. With advice gleaned from years of teaching writing to graduate students, Pyne offers pragmatic guidance on how to create powerful nonfiction, whether for an academic or popular audience.

Fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West region to the national fire scene. Pyne discusses the region's recent return to prominence due to fires along its front ranges, to invasive species, both exotics like cheatgrass and unleashed natives like mountain pine beetle, and to its fatality fires, notably at South Canyon in 1994.

Stephen J. Pyne is one of the world¿s foremost chroniclers of the cultural and environmental history of fire. He is the author of the Cycle of Fire, a suite of six books examining the history of fire around the world.

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 science and environmental history-an exploration of the geologic time scale and evolution twinned with the story of how, eventually, we have come to understand our own past. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. The Last Lost World is an ...

Blooms with such glorious rushes of exalted prose that I was dog- earing almost every page." --The New York Times Book Review As debate over the future of NASA heats up, award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne presents America's greatest space expeditions as the latest chapter in a continuous saga of discovery that goes back centuries. Pyne's luminous narrative not only recounts the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions, launched in 1977 to explore th...

Introduces a region that once lay at the geographic heart of American fire and today promises to reclaim something of that heritage. Stephen J. Pyne explores how this once most regularly and widely burned province of North America has been shaped by the flames contained within it and what fire, both tame and feral, might mean for the future of its landscapes.