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A succinct survey of fire's long co-evolution with humanity. It examines fire's influence on landscapes, art, science and, in recent times, climate. Richly illustrated with images rarely reproduced or not seen before in the context of fire.

Stephen Pyne's "Vestal Fire" is an astounding tour de force, even by this writer's demandingly high standards: nothing less than a total history of the western conception, practice and response to fire through (at least) three millennia. " -Simon Schama, author of "Landscape and Memory". "This is environmental history at its best - a subtle but provocative new blend of the human and the natural, of culture and nature, of society and environmen...

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In this important new collection of essays on Florida, Stephen J. Pyne colourfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire suppression in favour of prescribed burning, for which it has ideal environmental conditions and a robust culture. Out of this heritage the fire community has created institutions to match.

Explores the ways California has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the US. Stephen J. Pyne writes that what makes California's fire scene unique is how its distinctive biomes have been yoked to a common system, ultimately committed to suppression, and how its fires burn with a character and on a scale commensurate with the state's size and power.

Stephen J. Pyne is professor of history at Arizona State University. He is the author of nine other books, including Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon.

From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channelled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as simple suppression and then was replaced with more enlightened programmes of fire management.

From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channelled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as simple suppression and then was replaced with more enlightened programmes of fire management.

Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythi...

Author Stephen Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers. "Stephen Pyne is a great storyteller, and here he weaves as fine a tale as one could imagine about a phenomenon as seemingly ordinary as fire".--NATURAL HISTORY. A Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book. 14 photos.

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Through a mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, fire expert Stephen J. Pyne provides a lively survey of what makes this region distinctive, moving us beyond the usual conversations of science and policy. Pyne explores the Southwest's sacred mountains, including the Jemez, Mogollon, Huachucas, and Kaibab, its sky islands, among them the Chiricahuas, Mount Graham, and Tanque Verde, and its famous rims and borders. Together, t...

The Northern Rockies are one of three major hearths for America's fire culture. They hold a major fire laboratory, an equipment development center, an aerial fire depot, and a social engagement with fire--even a literature. Missoula is to fire in the big backcountry what Tallahassee is to prescribed burning and what Southern California is to urban-wildland hybrids. On its margins, Boise hosts the National Interagency Fire Center. In this struc...

Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, showing that it has been a powerful environmental determinant, shaping both social and natural histories.

As Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilbert's range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of new discoveries about the earth, Gilbert described two novel forms of mountain building, invented the concept of the graded stream, inaugurated modern theories of lunar origin, helped found the science of geomorphology, and added to the canon of co...

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.

World Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseperable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.--"Stephen J. Pyne writes about fire as if he were on fire, with searing, consuming heat and light. When he looks at fire he sees not biological catastrophe but social illumination and natural renewal...This book will change the way you view fire--and the way you see us routinely fighting it." --Seattle Ti...

Premier fire historian Stephen Pyne offers a thorough, readable assessment of the American wildfire situation, lending an expert voice to public discussion of the issues that threaten our cut-over, tinderbox forests.

In The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica America s foremost expert on wildfire turns to the land without fire, a continent reduced to a single mineral -- ice.

Reprint (of 1989 ed.) with a new preface. Pyne (American Studies, Arizona State U., MacArthur awardee) recounts his 15 years as an active firefighter on the North Rim. A lyric, articulate, swift book. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.