Cycle of Fire
A suite of books that surveys the history of fire on Earth

Fire: A Brief History (University of Washington Press and British Museum, 2001; translated into Japanese and Chinese.) $18.95

World Fire. The Culture of Fire on Earth (Henry Holt and Co., 1995; paperback edition, University of Washington Press,  1997; Japanese edition, Hosei University Press, 2001) $19.95

Vestal Fire. An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World (1997; paperback edition, University of Washington Press, 2000). $24.95

Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (1982; paperback edition, University of Washington Press,  1997). $24.95

Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada (2007; University of British Columbia Press; University of Washington Press, US distributor)

Burning Bush. A Fire History of Australia (1991; paperback edition, University of Washington Press, 1998). $22.50

The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (1986; paperback edition, University of Washington Press,  1998). $19.95

Other works . . .
Books pertaining mostly  to  fire, the Grand Canyon, and exploration and the history of geology.

          Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction (Harvard University Press, May 2009)

          The Still-Burning Bush  (Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2006)

          Tending Fire. Coping with America's Wildland Fires (Island Press, October 2004)

Grove Karl Gilbert. A Great Engine of Research (Austin: University of Texas, 1980; reissued in paperback, University of Iowa Press, 2007).

Dutton's Point: An Intellectual History of the Grand Canyon. Monograph Number 5 (Grand Canyon Natural History Association, 1983; out of print).

Introduction to Wildland Fire. Fire Management in the United States (New York: Wiley, 1984; out of print)

Wildland Fires and Nuclear Winters: Selected Reconstruction of Historic Large Fires. (Defense Documentation Center, DNA-TR-85-396, February 1986), 167 pp, single-spaced, illus, unclassified report to Defense Nuclear Agency. Co-author, Dr Philip N. Omi.

Fire on the Rim. A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon (1989; University of Washington Press, paperback edition, 1995). $14.95

Introduction to Wildland Fire, 2nd ed. (New York: Wiley, 1996). Co-authors: Patricia Andrews and Richard Laven. $260.  NB: The book's price has long been out of our hands.  Wiley, however, has returned the rights, and I am preparing for a single-authored 3rd edition.    Contact me for a pdf of the entire existing book for $10.

America's Fires. Management in Wildlands and Forests (Durham: Forest History Society, 1997) $6.95 singly, or $4.00 for bulk buys over 10

How the Canyon Became Grand. A Short History (Viking, 1998; Penguin Books, pb edition, 1999) $12.95

Year of the Fires. The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 (New York: Viking, 2001; Penguin, pb edition, 2002; Mountain Press Publ. Co, 2008) 

Smokechasing (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003) hardcover edition, $37.50; paperback, $19.95

Brittlebush Valley (Sunnyvale, CA: Patsons Press, 2005).  Click on link for ordering information.

Works in Progress
Books under contract, manuscripts written but not yet published, projects being researched.

          America's Fires.  An Historical Context for Policy and Practice (Forest History Society, 2009) .  Complete revision and update of 1997 America's Fires

Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery (in press; Viking, summer 2010)

The Pleistocene.  Its Histories.  Its Hominins.  Its Humanities - in progress; co-author, Lydia V. Pyne

Between Two Fires - A 50-year revew of America's great cultural revolution on fire - proposal stage

Introduction to Wildland Fire, 3rd, rev. - single-authored reconstruction, a complete rewriting - in progress

[Untitled] - A Fire History of Mexico (under research)