Fire: A Brief History surveys the principles behind aboriginal and agricultural fire practices, the characteristics of urban fire, and the relationship between controlled combustion and technology. Pyne describes the evolution of fire through prehistoric and historic times down to the present, examining contemporary attitudes from a long-range, informed perspective. Here, in one concise book, is the essential story of fire. If one wants to understand just how completely the story of the human past is also the story of fire on earth, there is no better place to start than this small book."-William Cronon "The fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth, is tied to the fires that have made the world as we know it-the fires whose history is told as well in this book as it has ever been told before.
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