From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape. Book jacket.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691083002
ISBN-13
9780691083001
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1316485
Product Key Features
Author
Stephen J. Pyne
Publication Name
Fire in America : a Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History & Philosophy, Fire Science, United States / General
Publication Year
1982
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Mathematics, History
Number of Pages
654 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
39.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
81-047945
Lc Classification Number
Sd421.3.P96 1982
Reviews
" Fire in America is the biggest, most ambitious, and fact-filled book about woodland, brush and prairie fires in the United States. Reading it is like backpacking through the nation's forests in company with a modern-day Thoreau." --Dennis Smith, The New York Times Book Review