The still-burning bush / Stephen Pyne
- Bib ID:
- 3581729
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Carlton North, Vic. : Scribe, 2006
- 137 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1920769757
- Series:
- Scribe short books.
- Summary:
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Traces the environmental and social significance of the use of fire to shape the environment, throughout Australia's history, beginning with the use of the firestick by Aboriginals, and its subsequent passing-on to rural colonists.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: PART 1
- Firestick Fundamentals: a primer 10
- Firestick History: a synopsis 23
- PART 2
- Fire Conservancy 39
- Early Burning, Light Burning, No Burning 45
- Between Two Fires: creating an Australian strategy 57
- Backfire: the environmentalist critique 62
- PART 3
- As the World Burns 67
- Fire's Rectangle: options for management 77
- The Green in the Ash 97
- PART 4
- Pyromancy: divining futures in the flames 107
- The Still-Burning Bush 118
- POSTSCRIPT: Where Australia Sees the Universe 129.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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