Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Stephen J. Pyne
From the time of the continent's formation tens of millions of
years ago as the Godwana twin of Antarctica, Australia has been
dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice. Now Stephen Pyne,
one of our foremost environmental historians, proposes a major
reinterpretation of the Australian experience by using fire and
Australia to explain one another. He narrates the story of how fire came
to Australia and interacted with the Australian biota and its human
inhabitants, while at the same time he relates the planetary saga of
fire as it has been played out on this special island continent. Much as
the Aborigines exploited fire to remake their environment into
something more usable, so Stephen Pyne exploits fire to transform the
landscape of history into something more accessible, to use its
transmuting power to extract new meaning out of familiar events. Pyne
traces the impact of fire, from its initial influence on the evolving
vegetation of the new continent, through its use by the Aborigines and
the subsequent European settlers, to the holocaust of February 1983
known as Ash Wednesday, and he shows us that the dynamic nature of fire
has made it a most powerful environmental determinant in Australia,
shaping both its social and natural histories.
years ago as the Godwana twin of Antarctica, Australia has been
dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice. Now Stephen Pyne,
one of our foremost environmental historians, proposes a major
reinterpretation of the Australian experience by using fire and
Australia to explain one another. He narrates the story of how fire came
to Australia and interacted with the Australian biota and its human
inhabitants, while at the same time he relates the planetary saga of
fire as it has been played out on this special island continent. Much as
the Aborigines exploited fire to remake their environment into
something more usable, so Stephen Pyne exploits fire to transform the
landscape of history into something more accessible, to use its
transmuting power to extract new meaning out of familiar events. Pyne
traces the impact of fire, from its initial influence on the evolving
vegetation of the new continent, through its use by the Aborigines and
the subsequent European settlers, to the holocaust of February 1983
known as Ash Wednesday, and he shows us that the dynamic nature of fire
has made it a most powerful environmental determinant in Australia,
shaping both its social and natural histories.
კატეგორია:
წელი:
1998
გამოცემა:
Revised
გამომცემლობა:
University of Washington Press
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
548
ISBN 10:
0295976772
ISBN 13:
9780295976778
სერია:
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
ფაილი:
PDF, 33.04 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1998
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