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Year of the Fires
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Viking Adult

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"1910 was America's millennial year of fire. That summer, American nature and American society collided with tectonic force as western wildfires scorched millio
Between Two Fires
Language: en
Pages: 550
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-15 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire m
The Big Burn
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Timothy Egan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-19 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.
The Pyrocene
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-02 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late.​
Fire in America
Language: en
Pages: 681
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-27 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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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 th