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BURNING BUSH A FIRE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA by PYNE STEPHEN J
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Cycle of Fire Ser.
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.�Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major ...Show more
Fire - A Brief History (Second Edition) by Pyne, Stephen J
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne?named by Science magazine as ?the world?s leading authority on the history of fire??explores the surpri ...Show more
Fire: Nature and Culture by Stephen J. Pyne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth S.
Fire has been an integral feature of our planet for over 400 million years. It has defined human culture from the beginning; it is something without which we cannot survive. While among the most destructive forces on Earth, fire displays equally tremendous powers of cleansing and renewal. Whether huntin ...Show more
Still-Burning Bush (Updated Edition) by Stephen Pyne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch. Australia is one of the world’s fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on the national culture. Over the past two decades, bushfires have reasserted themse ...Show more
Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction by Stephen J. Pyne
$27.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
It has become commonplace these days to speak of 'unpacking' texts. "Voice and Vision" is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art - that is, literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into memoir, or become self-referential tex ...Show more
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