Burning Bush

by Pyne, Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9780295976778
• ISBN10: 0295976772
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780295998831
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(4)
William Cronon
Preface to the 1998 Paperback Edition	xiii	(4)
Preface to the Original Edition: Firestick History	xvii	(5)
Map of Australia	xxii	(2)
Map of Australia's Vegetation	xxiv
Prologue: Dust to Dust	1	(14)
BOOK I: THE EUCALYPT	15	(56)
1. The Universal Australian	15	(11)
2. Unimaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a Pyrophyte	26	(16)
3. Red Centre: Fire Regimes of Old Australia	42	(15)
4. Land of Contrarities	57	(14)
BOOK II: THE ABORIGINE	71	(82)
5. Flaming Front	71	(14)
6. Firestick Farmer: Profile of a Pyrophile	85	(20)
7. Fires of the Dreaming	105	(16)
8. Smokes by Day, Fires by Night: Fire Regimes of Aboriginal Australia	121	(15)
9. This Wonderful Depository of Fire	136	(17)
BOOK III: THE EUROPEAN	153	(168)
10. Entwining Fire	153	(30)
11. Reconnaissance by Fire: Education of a Pyrophile	183	(16)
12. Red Steers and Green Pick	199	(28)
13. Beyond the Black Stump	227	(20)
14. Fire Conservancy	247	(28)
15. Burning Off: Fire Provinces of European Australia	275	(26)
16. When the Billy Boiled	301	(20)
BOOK IV: THE NEW AUSTRALIAN	321	(89)
17. The Two Fires	321	(17)
18. Antipodean Fire: The Australian Strategy	338	(26)
19. Wild Bush, Urban Bush: Fire Regimes of New Australia	364	(24)
20. Dieback	388	(22)
Epilogue: Ashes to Ashes	410	(13)
Notes	423	(70)
Bibliographic Essay	493	(6)
Index	499