Burning bush : a fire history of Australia /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
1998.
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| ISBN: | 9780295998831 0295998830 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword by William Cronon
- Preface to the 1998 paperback edition
- Preface to the original edition: Firestick history
- Map of Australia
- Map of Australia's vegetation
- Prologue: Dust to dust
- Book I. The Eucalypt
- 1. The universal Australian
- 2. Unimaginable freaks of fire: Profile of a pyrophyte
- 3. Red centre: Fire regimes of old Australia
- 4. Land of contrarities
- Book II. The Aborigine
- 5. Flaming front
- 6. Firestick farmer: Profile of a pyrophile
- 7. Fires of the dreaming
- 8. Smokes by day, fires by night: Fire regimes of Aboriginal Australia
- 9. This wonderful depository of fire
- Book III. The European
- 10. Entwining fire
- 11. Reconnaissance by fire: Education of a pyrophile
- 12. Red steers and green pick
- 13. Beyond the black stump
- 14. Fire conservancy
- 15. Burning off: Fire provinces of European Australia
- 16. When the Billy boiled
- Book IV. The new Australian
- 17. The two fires
- 18. Antipodean fire: The Australian strategy
- 19. Wild bush, urban bush: Fire regimes of new Australia
- 20. Dieback
- Epilogue: Ashes to ashes.