| Edition |
Pbk. edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 520 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-497) and index. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1991. Foreword and preface to this ed. copyright 1998 by the University of Washington Press. |
| Contents |
Foreword by William Cronon -- Preface to the 1998 paperback edition -- Preface to the original edition: Firestick history -- Map of Australia -- Map of Australia's vegetation -- Prologue: Dust to dust -- Book I. The Eucalypt -- 1. The universal Australian -- 2. Unimaginable freaks of fire: Profile of a pyrophyte -- 3. Red centre: Fire regimes of old Australia -- 4. Land of contrarities -- Book II. The Aborigine -- 5. Flaming front -- 6. Firestick farmer: Profile of a pyrophile -- 7. Fires of the dreaming -- 8. Smokes by day, fires by night: Fire regimes of Aboriginal Australia -- 9. This wonderful depository of fire -- Book III. The European -- 10. Entwining fire -- 11. Reconnaissance by fire: Education of a pyrophile -- 12. Red steers and green pick -- 13. Beyond the black stump -- 14. Fire conservancy -- 15. Burning off: Fire provinces of European Australia -- 16. When the Billy boiled -- Book IV. The new Australian -- 17. The two fires -- 18. Antipodean fire: The Australian strategy -- 19. Wild bush, urban bush: Fire regimes of new Australia -- 20. Dieback -- Epilogue: Ashes to ashes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Australia. |
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Fire ecology -- Australia.
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Fire ecology. |
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Natural history -- Australia.
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Natural history. |
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Shifting cultivation -- Australia.
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Shifting cultivation. |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- Burning bush. Pbk. edition 0295976772 (OCoLC)39845479 |
| ISBN |
9780295998831 electronic book |
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0295998830 electronic book |
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0295976772 |
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9780295976778 |
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