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Smokechasing by Stephen J. Pyne
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78Painting, architecture, politics, even gardening and golf all have their critics and commentators, observes Stephen Pyne. ""Fire does not."" Aside from news reports on fire disasters, most writing... -
To the Last Smoke: An Anthology by Stephen J. Pyne
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540129Author Stephen J. PyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Arizona... -
Florida: A Fire Survey by Stephen J. Pyne
Booksplease Price: €21.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816532728Author Stephen J. PyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Arizona... -
The Northeast: A Fire Survey by Stephen J. Pyne
Booksplease Price: €21.52Repeatedly, if paradoxically, the Northeast has led national developments in fire. Its intellectuals argued for model preserves in the Adirondacks and at Yellowstone, oversaw the first mapping of the... -
The Northern Rockies: A Fire Survey by Stephen J. Pyne
Booksplease Price: €21.79It's a place of big skies and big fires, big burns like those of 1910 and 1988 that riveted national attention. Conflagrations like those of 1934 and 2007 that reformed national policy. Blowups like... -
Fire: A Brief History by Stephen J. Pyne 9780295746180
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €18.96Over 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... -
Fire: A Brief History by Stephen J. Pyne 9780295746203
RRP: €128.46Booksplease Price: €121.92Over 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... -
The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. Pyne 9780295976785
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €39.90"The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know, yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page. . . . Pyne conveys a view of Antarctica that interweaves... -
Fire: Nature and Culture by Stephen J. Pyne 9781780230467
Booksplease Price: €30.94Fire 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... -
Here and There: A Fire Survey by Stephen J. Pyne 9780816538539
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20Fire is special. Even among the ancient elements, fire is different because it alone is a reaction. It synthesizes its surroundings; it takes its character from its context. It varies by place, by... -
Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia by Stephen J. Pyne
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €40.48Pyne 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... -
Undying Fire: A Fire History of Europe Stephen J. Pyne 9780295754864
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €28.02Europe’s unquenchable flames, from hearth to Pyrocene, reveal a civilization’s combustible coreThis work offers a sweeping history of Europe told through flame—and a history of fire refracted through... -
Undying Fire: A Fire History of Europe Stephen J. Pyne 9780295754857
RRP: €128.46Booksplease Price: €122.39Europe's unquenchable flames, from hearth to Pyrocene, reveal a civilization's combustible core This work offers a sweeping history of Europe told through flame-and a history of fire refracted... -
Style and Story: Literary Methods for Writing Nonfiction by Stephen J. Pyne
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537891Author Stephen J. PyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Arizona... -
World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth by Stephen J. Pyne 9780295975931
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €34.65Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet."Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such... -
Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico by Stephen J. Pyne 9780816553396
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €35.94A climate defined by wet and dry seasons, a mostly mountainous terrain, a biota prone to disturbances, a human geography characterized by a diversity of peoples all of whom rely on burning in one... -
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada by Stephen J. Pyne 9780774813921
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €30.15Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada's forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect themselves from... -
Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire by Stephen J. Pyne
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €45.74From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.Book InformationISBN... -
How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History by Stephen J. Pyne 9780140280562
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140280562Author Stephen J. PyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher... -
America's Fires: A Historical Context for Policy and Practice by Stephen J. Pyne 9780890300732
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890300732Author Stephen J. PyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Forest History... -
Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon by Stephen J. Pyne 9780295974835
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €34.30In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire... -
Year of the Fire: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 by Stephen J Pyne 9780878425440
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878425440Author Stephen J PyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Mountain Press Publishing... -
Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America by Stephen J. Pyne 9780816532148
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30From 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 management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a... -
Pyrocene Park: A Journey into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park by Stephen J. Pyne
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816549238Author Stephen J. PyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Arizona... -
The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next by Stephen J. Pyne
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €23.66A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time-and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late. The Pyrocene tells the story of what... -
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Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon by Stephen J. Pyne 9780295974835 [USED COPY]
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €4.56In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire... -
Slopovers: Fire Surveys of the Mid-American Oak Woodlands, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska by Stephen J. Pyne
Booksplease Price: €21.52America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the... -
The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next by Stephen J. Pyne 9780520391635
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time-and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late. The Pyrocene tells the story of what... -
The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned About a Wider World Stephen J. Pyne 9780816555437
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Saving America's Wildlife: Ecology and the American Mind, 1850-1990 by Thomas Dunlap
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €46.47Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.Reviews"Beginning with nineteenth-century underpinnings to... -
After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans Ben A. Minteer 9780226259963
Booksplease Price: €22.17From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos-to protect nature from... -
Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe by Rebecca A. Senf 9780520273900
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €42.78Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the... -
Reopening the American West by Hal K. Rothman
Booksplease Price: €31.02Take a good look at the American West and you'll see that the frontier is undergoing constant changes not only changes made to the land but also changes in attitudes about the land held by the people... -
After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans by Ben A. Minteer 9780226259826
RRP: €55.93Booksplease Price: €55.18From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos - to protect nature... -
Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.16Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can... -
The Polar Regions: An Environmental History Adrian Howkins 9780745670805
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.13The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent... -
Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea Ben A Minteer 9780300260724
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.75A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one... -
Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West by Nancy Langston
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €34.65Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests... -
Living with Wildfire: A Homeowner's Handbook by Maureen Gilmer 9781493038367
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.50In Living with Wildfire (first published as The Wildfire Survival Guide), gardening expert Maureen Gilmer shares proven ways to save your home, property, and life with wildfire-resistant landscaping... -
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship...